Fox Affiliate Censors Breasts On Picasso Painting

Dominique Mosbergen
Updated

A Fox affiliate came under fire this week for censoring cubist images of breasts on a record-breaking Pablo Picasso painting.

Fox 5 News, New York City's local Fox affiliate, ran a segment Monday night on the $179 million auction of Picasso’s ”Les Femmes d'Alger" (Version O), now the most expensive painting in the world.

"We decided to blur the nude portions so that we could show it to you on air," anchor Dari Alexander said, per Mediaite.

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Art historian Aruna D’Souza tweeted her disdain at the station’s censorship decision. New York magazine art critic Jerry Saltz later did the same, as did many bemused netizens.

In the wake of the criticism, Fox 5 admitted it had made a mistake.

"It was ridiculous," the Fox 5 morning news crew said.

On Thursday, the station shared the painting “in all its glory” on its Facebook page.

“We get it,” Fox 5 wrote. “A blurred out version of Pablo Picasso’s masterpiece … wasn’t the best move.”

We get it. A blurred out version of Pablo Picasso's masterpiece-- The Women of Algiers (Version 0)-- wasn't the best move.Here is the art work in all its glory: http://tinyurl.com/npps9ez

Posted by FOX 5 / MyFoxNY.com on Thursday, May 14, 2015

Wiping Iraq off the map

A 2009 <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/31/fox-news-cant-find-egypt-map_n_816540.html" target="_blank">classic</a>, in which Iraq has somehow been replaced by Egypt.
A 2009 classic, in which Iraq has somehow been replaced by Egypt.

Erm, we're pretty sure he didn't have a sex change

<em>(Via <a href="http://crooksandliars.com/logan-murphy/media-matters-another-bad-week-fox-ne" target="_hplink">Crooks and Liars</a>)</em>
(Via Crooks and Liars)

120% of Americans said...

The worst part? This wasn't just a graphics - or maths - blunder. <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2009/12/08/fox-news-fiddles-with-climate-change-polling/157839" target="_blank">Fox News was deliberately trying to massage the stats</a>.

Confusing 'climate' with 'weather'

We're with Bill Weir from CNN on this one: <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Weather is not climate, you willfully ignorant fucksticks. MT <a href="https://twitter.com/foxnation">@foxnation</a>: Climate Doesn’t Cooperate With Al Gore&#10;<a href="http://t.co/QKe0PkyYQK">http://t.co/QKe0PkyYQK</a></p>&mdash; Bill Weir (@BillWeirCNN) <a href="https://twitter.com/BillWeirCNN/status/494670062092296192">July 31, 2014</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

We don't need no education

<em>(Via <a href="http://thegallopingbeaver.blogspot.com/2008_07_01_archive.html" target="_hplink">The Galloping Beaver</a>)</em>
(Via The Galloping Beaver)

Nuclear power? No thanks!

Fun fact: 'Shibuyaeggman' isn't a nuclear power plant. It's a music venue called Eggman. In Shibuya. <em>(Via <a href="http://kotaku.com/#!5783880/japan-doesnt-have-an-eggman-nuclear-plant" target="_hplink">Kotaku</a>)</em>
Fun fact: 'Shibuyaeggman' isn't a nuclear power plant. It's a music venue called Eggman. In Shibuya. (Via Kotaku)

We've all typed it...

...fortunately not on a live on-screen caption, however. <em>(Via <a href="http://failuremag.com/index.php/failure_analysis/article/fox_news_graphics_fail/" target="_hplink">Failure Mag</a>)</em>
...fortunately not on a live on-screen caption, however. (Via Failure Mag)

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