Broadway Legend Joined: 4/5/04
"Britney Spears will soon be giving birth again — in Brooklyn, as a sexy sculpture that has drawn thousands of hate e-mails.
"This is a new take on pro-life. Pro-lifers normally promote bloody images of abortion. This is the image of birth," Daniel Edwards said of his work, to be unveiled at a Brooklyn gallery in April, months after Edwards' sculpture of Ted Williams severed head stirred up an artistic storm.
The life-size pop princess is naked and pregnant, crouching face-down on a bare-toothed bear rug as the baby's head appears on the opposite end.
On Tuesday at his studio in Moosup, Conn., Edwards was pouring a mold to cast the sculpture in resin. It'll be transported to the Capla Kesting Fine Art gallery in Brooklyn's artsy Williamsburg neighborhood, where Britney the artwork is to appear next to a display case filled with pro-life materials.
When some bloggers heard about the exhibit — "Monument to Pro-Life: The Birth of Sean Preston" — the gallery was inundated with about 3,000 e-mails from around the world in just a week, split between pro-choice and pro-life opinions.
"We also got calls from Tokyo, England, France. Some people are upset that Britney is being used for this subject matter," said gallery co-owner David Kesting. "Others who are pro-life thought this was degrading to their movement. And some pro-choice people were upset that this is a pro-life monument."
The gallery is hiring extra security guards for the free exhibit opening April 7 and running two weeks."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060328/ap_on_en_mu/britney_art_brouhaha_4
There are already two other threads about this.
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/5/04
Sorry.
Well, this is the thread I chose to read.
Thanks, Margo. Very interesting...
No need to be sorry...I actually find it interesting that it's generating so much buzz.
If it were true to life she'd have a Venti Frappucino in one hand and a bag of Cheetos in the other. Talk about artistic license.
omg, margo! you, like, so totally don't know how to use the search function. shah.
i want to kiss the baby's head.
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/15/05
If I were Brit - I would be pissed. Did you see the hips on that thing?!
Have you seen the hips on the REAL thing? :O
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/15/05
Lol - Yes, actually I have. Touche!
i want to nuzzle the baby's forehead.
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
She must be a Scientologist, she's not screaming.
i want to lick the afterbirth from sean's eyes.
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/10/05
Um, that statue sounds really creepy.
it's just a matter of time until they arrest someone trying to do the britney statue.
Papa, me thinks you have been very racy on this thread.
i just want to be close to brit-nay, uh-kay?
::Joins insane fan behavior while wearing a shirt featuring all of Papa's statements in this thread::
Papa, I understand the baby's head is crowning in the sculpture. Just go around back, bend over, and kiss! I'll give you $25 if you'll do it.
Actually, I would think that any likeness of Britney giving birth would make a good argument in favor of abortion.
"Actually, I would think that any likeness of Britney giving birth would make a good argument in favor of abortion".
That's the artist's point. His work is making fun of pro-lifers.
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