Hitler's art, Jimmy Carr and... ISIS?

 Who is your favorite painter?  Rembrandt?  Van Gogh?  Perhaps your tastes lean more towards the bathroom stall sketch, but removing those doors from the restrooms, framing them, and finding a proper method of display is a tad difficult.  Nevertheless, if some jackass can throw paint at a wall and sell it for millions in an Alan Sokal-level prank on the art world... wait... you mean he was serious?  Fuck.  Anyway, moving on, what say ye about the works of noted vegetarian and syphilis enthusiast, A. Hitler?  At one point, he was involved in politics, but as I always say, one must separate evaluation of art from artist and consider the proper method for displaying the works of this painter and patron of the medical sciences.

What?  I'm allowed to make that joke.  Statistically, you probably aren't.

Getting back on track, some British comedian, of whom I have never heard, is doing something hilarious horribly offensive that is a topic of some controversy and consternation within certain quarters, including among my "ha-ha, you missed me, asshole" demographic.  A British tv station bought a painting made by the author of Germany's best-selling cookbook, and they're going to debate whether or not to destroy it.

What?!  Too soon?

Look, you clicked on this post, and there are no refunds.  Actually, I'm happy to give you back all the money you paid when you clicked on this post.  Here.  Have it back.  All zero of it.  Like I said, I can say this stuff.  You can't, unless you similarly paid for it with a childhood of overcooked, flavorless chicken, gefilte fish and goddamn-fucking Bahbarah.  I'm going to make jokes.  I never promised they would be funny.

Regardless, what should be done with those paintings?  The promotional images have Carr pictured with a hammer, which... really?  You're going to take a hammer to a painting?  Why not chop off the sides, leaving just some stupid center sliver?  I'd use another oven joke, but I already did that.  Regardless, if you don't destroy it, where would you put it?

Remembering that he's long dead, so you can't actually put it there.

As a general rule, I'm not a fan of destroying art, even loosely-defined art, and I cannot help but think of ISIS destroying religious artifacts from before Mohammed.  To them, same thing, and I don't want to be lumped in with ISIS.

On the other hand, this is fucking hilarious, and vaguely reminiscent of an old Saturday Night Live bit in which there was a call-in vote on whether or not to kill a lobster named Larry.

Traditionally, one dumps a live lobster in boiling water rather than an oven.  Just noting.

G'night everybody!  I'll be here until my jew-card is revoked!  [Ducks flying fruit]

PS:  As Franz Liebkind informed us, Hitler was a better painter than Churchill.  So there's that.