Banner of Roasting Dog Is Back in City Hall Exhibit
The barbecued dog is back.
Filipino artists were allowed to rehang in the Los Angeles City Hall rotunda Tuesday morning a 12-foot-wide banner depicting a dog roasting on a spit--an artwork that had been banned a week earlier from a festival of Philippine culture.
Adolfo V. Nodal, head of the city’s Cultural Affairs Department, removed the banner because he said that it was demeaning to Filipinos and animal lovers and that it was not an official part of the exhibit.
But Nodal permitted the banner to be hung again after the half-dozen artists responsible for the work agreed to publish a statement explaining its anti-racist symbolism.
Nodal also rejected requests by others at City Hall--including a Filipino employees organization and the executive director of the Commission on the Status of Women--to remove several sexually explicit artworks from the exhibit.
The artworks and banner will be on display through mid-June, except for a few days when a movie crew will be filming in the rotunda.
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