Galleries must be free to display whatever work they choose, even that which is seen to promote hate speech, says Tessa Mayes.
Galleries must be free to display whatever work they choose, even that which is seen to promote hate speech, says Tessa Mayes.
A campaign group calling for the closure of an art gallery in east London will hold protests this weekend. This follows a series of events and exhibits at the LD50 gallery in Dalston, which Andrew Osborne, an organiser for the Shutdown LD50 group, says constituted ‘hate speech’, and ‘advocate[d] violence in the pursuit of authoritarianism and racial supremacy... Keep reading on spiked