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Aussie art in Islamic morality hoax
The theft of art and tall tales from Islamic websites are not the sort of thing you would expect to hit the Crikey bunker, but Patricia Piccinini â older sister of Mrs Crikey and prominent contemporary artist â has been quite shocked by developments over the past few weeks.In May, Patricia and her artist husband Peter Hennesey noticed a sharp uptick in the traffic through Patricia's website, which now carries a front page explanation of what is quite a disturbing hoax. Site usage had surged from a healthy 150,000 page views in April to a record 950,000 in May. A quick look at the "top referrers" didn't just show Google and various art magazines or galleries, but also websites such as Somalia Online. A few days later they received the first email referring to the use of one of Patricia's works â a cropped image from the sculpture The Leather Landscape â in a hoax. The hoax was posted on an Arabic language website www.alnilin.com and recounted the story of how a girl was transformed into an animal after throwing a copy of the Koran on to the ground. Picture at link....ya gotta laugh. Posted by: Ebbavirt Fleremp9245 2005-07-01 |
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