Yes, more art as outrage. Read this (which I got to from here and then here):
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A Polish artist has sparked controversy in the Netherlands by selling "Auschwitz souvenirs" -- from crematorium fridge magnets to "Arbeit Macht Frei" key rings -- to remind people of the horrors of the Nazi death camp.T-shirts with the menacing skull-and-crossbones symbol from the camp's electric fences and key rings bearing the camp gate's infamous German inscription "Arbeit Macht Frei" (Work Sets You Free) have been on sale at a Dutch art show since late July.
Agata Siwek, a 30-year-old fine arts graduate who grew up near Auschwitz, said Thursday the items she put on sale in the southern city of Den Bosch were intended to remind people of the Holocaust and the need to combat discrimination and war.
"Taking a souvenir and hanging it on your keys is a way to remember the evil inside all of us. It (Auschwitz) is the symbol of the ultimate evil," Siwek said.
Well, Ms. Siwek now has her flurry of publicity, this posting now being part of that.
Next, joke key rings with the face of Mohammed, an exact model of the Mosque at Mecca made out of camel dung, some Satanic Verses spelt out with Coca-Cola bottle tops, stuff like that.
Well, no, because that sort of thing would be too scandalous. The art of outrage art is to be just outrageous enough to get that publicity flurry, but not so outrageous that they come and put you in prison or murder you or decide that you can't be in the newspapers or on the telly, or some such disaster. The trick is to understand the shifting frontiers of respectability, the fluctuating battle lines of outrageousness, searching for that spot where the "outrageous" in the newspaper sense meets up with the truly outrageous, in the outrageous sense, and to place yourself in the exact spot that nobody else has spotted, which used to be beyond art but which has just recently come in rage, and then when they interview you, you say something emollient and completely politically correct as if you'd done nothing outrageous at all. Basically you say: "What's all the fuss about?" Which is bullshit because the capable outrage artists knows exactly what the fuss is about, and if there was no fuss, the project would have been a failure.
The cunning of Ms. Siwek's outrage art is that it makes use of the outrage opportunities made possible by the somewhat less extreme outrageousness of anti-Semitism in Europe these days. This means that it is now just about okay, arguably, to exploit Auschwitz for outrage art purposes. Unhappy Jews still matter, of course they do. But they don't matter quite as much as they used to. And that's the sort of opportunity that an outrage artist is looking for.
Ms Siwek has showed herself to be an expert outrage artist, who understands exactly how these things are done. There will be many more entrepreneurs from Eastern Europe in our midst in the next few years, mostly to our extreme benefit and doing mostly respectable and honourable things, but also things like this.

