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Thursday, January 24, 2013
A Talladega art show has been cancelled after a piece of art was deemed offensive. Officials at the Heritage Hall Museum in Talladega originally planned an exhibit for Troy University’s fine arts and design program.
According to Talladega’s The Daily Home, nine artists submitted work for the exhibit named “A Sense of Place” which was supposed to open early this week. Board members from the museum reviewed the artwork and found a piece with swastikas to be offensive.
Artist Ed Noriega told the Daily Home that his piece represents HB 56, Alabama’s controversial immigration bill. His art piece features cans of Ajax which were meant to represent “ethnic cleansing,” with the labels modified to feature the Nazi emblem and images of the Virgin Mary.
Museum officials were only going to omit the single submission to the art show, but Troy faculty decided to have the entire show cancelled in solidarity with Noriega. Museum officials said that despite the art’s political nature it would have been shown without the swastikas.
Noriega said it is unfortunate that the museum found his artwork offensive but to him, “it is HB 56 that is offensive.”
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