Putting pasties on the naked statues: The Federalist takes on nudes in art

Putting pasties on the naked statues: The Federalist takes on nudes in art

We Hunted the Mammoth is made possible by your generosity. Please drop a few bucks here if you can! So The Federalist, that bastion of reaction and bad takes, has a particularly inane post up now dedicated to the proposition that “Art Shouldn’t Get A Free Nudity Pass Just Because It’s Art,” as the title puts it. Why? Apparently naughtiness has no place in art. The author of the piece, Meg Marie Johnson, spends a good deal of time trying to prove…