Saturday Afternoon: How Charles Krafft inadvertently forced the art world to deal with “holocaust denial”
March 9, 2013
Prominent Seattle artist Charles Krafft, whose comment on this very program last July that he believed the holocaust was “a myth” caused shock in the politically far-Left and Jewish-dominated art world, tells what it’s been like on his end since The Stranger article appeared on February 13th. Discussion includes:
- Charles’ interview requests include Public Radio International (PRI);
- What his old friends are saying and writing to him now;
- His history as a ceramics artist with his “Disasterware” debuting in 1991 and “Spone China” in 1999;
- His connections to Slovenia and Romania, and the influence they had;
- Difference between holocaust denial, skepticism and revisionism;
- The importance, or not, of the artist’s intention and reasons for creating the work of art;
- Is it the art or the artist that the art public should consider;
- Art like Krafft’s can give a little distance from the “relentless mythologization of figures like Hitler (seen above in the form of a teapot) into symbolic demons.”



Carolyn shines the spotlight on the critics of artist and “Holocaust” sceptic/researcher
Germany's lower house of parliament, the Bundestag, has halted public subsidies to the Nationalist Party of Germany (NPD) over an unpaid fine.
Germany's domestic intelligence agency has come under fire for paying almost a quarter of a million dollars to a neo-Nazi informer linked to a far-right terror group. [This actually refers to the three, yes 3 persons (on Spiegel cover at left) who are being patsied by German Intelligence (a misnomer) as murderers in order to paint a picture of dangerous political extremism in Germany.]

