Per the ABC news tonight the opening has been cancelled due to claims of child pornography on exhibition with police examining the images on the Roslyn Oxley gallery web site. The gallery web site appears to be down as I write this. In the Sydney Morning Herald today it seemed arch-conservative columnist Miranda Devine may have been on the soapbox about this. (I never read her articles on principle but the mention of a photographer caught my eye) I assume some of Miranda's fans rang the authorities full of righteous indignation and the cops were brought in?
I'm a bit on the fence when it comes to Bill Henson's work. Some work I find very beautiful and compelling, others a bit disturbing and discomforting. |