"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.
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.