{"id":3029,"date":"2008-07-13T17:10:32","date_gmt":"2008-07-13T09:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sexnews.twfriend.org\/?p=3029"},"modified":"2008-07-13T17:11:40","modified_gmt":"2008-07-13T09:11:40","slug":"henson-exhibition-shut-down-arts-entertainment-smhcomau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sexnews.cloudns.org\/?p=3029","title":{"rendered":"Henson exhibition shut down \u3010Sydney Mornign Herald 2008\/05\/23\u3011"},"content":{"rendered":"

Henson exhibition shut down – Arts – Entertainment – smh.com.au<\/a>
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\nPhotographer Bill Henson.<\/p>\n

Photographer Bill Henson.
\nPhoto: Adam Hollingworth
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Paul Bibby
\nMay 23, 2008<\/p>\n

The opening night of an exhibition by the photographer Bill Henson featuring images of naked children was dramatically cancelled after police visited the Paddington gallery to investigate child pornography claims.<\/p>\n

The future of the exhibition at the Roslyn Oxley9 gallery, which featured images of a girl and a boy, aged 12 and 13 – some of which also appear on the gallery’s website – is now in doubt.<\/p>\n

Superintendent Allan Sicard from Rose Bay local area command cancelled the opening after consulting the gallery owners. The future of the show was yet to be decided.<\/p>\n

Talkback radio switchboards were swamped with calls after the Herald wrote about the exhibition yesterday.<\/p>\n

The gallery’s owner, Roslyn Oxley, said she had been showing similar work by Henson since 1990 “and they have never offended people”.<\/p>\n

Asked by Channel Seven if she would let her daughter pose for Henson, she said: “She’s been in some of his shots.”<\/p>\n

Henson said last night he was determined the exhibition should go ahead.<\/p>\n

One artist who attended the exhibition opening, Eugenia Raskopoulos, said the cancellation was “censorship of the worst kind”.<\/p>\n

“I cannot believe that they have cancelled this opening which features pictures that are honest and beautiful and in no way pornographic,” she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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