Brian Cowen Nude Portraits Controversy (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Two oil paintings depicting Brian Cowen, Taoiseach (prime minister) of Ireland, in the nude, were briefly displayed in Dublin art galleries in March 2009 as an act of guerilla art. The subsequent reactions of the media, the Garda Siochana (the Irish police force), and politicians have fed together into a sustained controversy nicknamed Portraitgate. The incidents attracted comment from politicians. The RTE News report was criticised as being in bad taste by Fianna Fail Senators Maria Corrigan and Mary O'Rourke and TDs M. J. Nolan and Michael Kennedy. Fine Gael TD Michael W. D'Arcy called it the "most distasteful report I have seen on RTE in years." Kennedy urged consideration for the feelings of Cowen's wife and children, and called on Director-General of RTE, Cathal Goan, to resign, but did not advocate charging the artist.