A paedophile photograph... Polanski... why on earth does the arts world think it is immune from morality?

There will be outraged cries of censorship after the removal of a photograph of the actress Brooke Shields, taken when she was an aspiring child actress of ten, from an exhibition at the Tate Modern museum in London hours before it was due to begin.

Police advised the gallery at the eleventh hour that the picture could break obscenity laws.

The young Brooke Shields is portrayed standing naked in a bathtub, looking directly at the viewer, with a heavily made-up face and an oiled torso.

It is amazing that the Tate should have ever contemplated showing such a repulsive, and deeply shocking, picture.

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Meanwhile in New York, Paris and London members of the 'artistic community' are decrying the arrest in Switzerland of the film director Roman Polanski for a crime committed 32 years ago.

Polanski drugged, and then sodomised, a 13-year-old girl, who appears subsequently to have forgiven him. Full story...

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