The Art of the Chinocrat

I just started this new blog, also on Blogger, called The Art of the Chinocrat. This is where I'll put all my thoughts and observations on art and other topics that I can make a visual commentary on. Since I consider myself an artist, I've decided I need a dedicated blog for this interest.

Feel free to take a gander, earthlings.

The Kulo Exhibit: A Kettle that Needlessly Boiled Over

Since I'm an artist myself, I might as well comment on the Kulo Art Exhibit issue. 

As the story goes, Mideo Cruz and several others displayed artwork at the Cultural Center of the Philippines that mixes religious imagery and phallic symbols. The Catholic bloc of the country took offense at the imagery and demanded its closure. It was closed, and the artists and other blocs of society complained that it was a suppression of freedom of expression. For some reason, it got so popular that it became the subject of a Senate hearing.