"Australia’s richest person, Gina Rinehart, has demanded the National Gallery of Australia remove a portrait of her from an exhibition by Archibald Prize-winning Indigenous artist Vincent Namatjira.
The billionaire mining mogul directly approached NGA director Nick Mitzevich and NGA chair Ryan Stokes in April to press for the portrait’s removal.
There have since been more than a dozen complaints to the gallery from associates of her company, Hancock Prospecting, which have accused the NGA of “doing the bidding of the Chinese Communist Party” by displaying her image in an unflattering way."
The Streisand effect is an unintended consequence of attempts to hide, remove, or censor information, where the effort instead increases public awareness of the information. The effect is named for American singer and actress Barbra Streisand, whose attorney's attempt in 2003 to suppress the publication of a photograph showing her clifftop residence in Malibu, taken to document coastal erosion in California, inadvertently drew far greater attention to the previously obscure photograph.[1] The effect exemplifies psychological reactance: where the desire to hide information instead makes its propagation more likely.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
“doing the bidding of the Chinese Communist Party” by displaying her image in an unflattering way."
Her company is one of China's largest suppliers of minerals. The entire Australian economy is essentially resoirce extraction for China. Weird how she hates the CCP So much that she keeps taking their money year after year.
If this were any normal person I'd side with them 100%, but if it's a billionaire who's probably a terrible person, now we're talking
who's
probablya terrible personShe wants to pay people $2 per day defending it with "Do something to make more money yourself — spend less time drinking or smoking and socializing, and more time working". in case you were wondering how she become a billionaire... yeah it was inheritance
Anybody who becomes a billionaire and stays a billionaire is a horrible human being
These people are fucking demons. Like I don't know how else to describe it.
she got an unflattering painting, she deserves a bullet
should be glad the artist didnt done her way dirtier
“doing the bidding of the Chinese Communist Party” by displaying her image in an unflattering way."
She's unintentionally making the CPC look way cooler than it actually is
Libs literally think everything is the fault of China or Russia don't they?
Now that most people aren't firm Christians, they have to replace "the Devil" with someone else to blame.
Unironically how all our conservatives (though we just call them liberals over here) act. Everything is China's fault.
lmfao how did this even get approved and put on display? it's so funny
So, the Chinese communist party paid someone to draw you like this and is paying a museum to display it? Oh yeah I'm sure
you're a fucking billionaire, just pay some random dude to go into the gallery and physically destroy it if you're that pressed about it.....or maybe, and this may shock some people, just donate to the gallery instead of claiming they're some sort of Chinese propaganda liaison. How do these people remember to fucking breathe??
My first thought too. Museums bend over backwards to please their wealthy patrons, become one and the curator might replace it with something you donate to him without even being asked. God damn most of us would be so much better at being a billionaire than any of these failkids.
China as usual living rent free in penal colonial anglos mind. That picture should be a lot uglier imo.
i came here to say this too. I think its deliberate on the part of the artist.
Is this gallery showing unused Disco Elysium character portraits?
