Monday, 19 October 2015

Everyone's an art critic - including the police


Away from the subject of BBC bias for a while...

First there came the pre-exhibition build-up about 'Blasphemy', "a series of about 40 paintings celebrating the right to criticize" by an up-and-coming artist...


Then came the increasingly inevitable follow-up:


Lakhveer Azad – Blasphemy
The gallery has taken the decision to cancel this exhibition due to the potentially offensive nature of its content after liaison with the Metropolitan Police.

As the presenter of Radio 4's Making History tweets:


May your god help us (as Dave Allen might have put it)!