When does art become child porn?

I'm just catching up on my reading and really enjoyed Laura Cumming's calm and thoughtful piece in the Guardian about the Tate Modern's recent decision to remove Richard Prince's re-photographed image of a naked underage Brooke Shields.

Cumming's draws no conclusions, but some of her other examples are shocking (like the Australian who was convicted of possessing child pornography after he was found to have images of Bart and Lisa Simpson having sex) and she does a nice job of providing an historic context without letting anyone off the hook for explaining their thinking today.

I'm currently making my way through Alan Moore's fantastic 25,000 Years of Erotic Freedom, which is more colorful in tone, but provides a similarly reasonable approach rarely found on and or off line.

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