Isis Threaten Sylvania by the artist Mimsy is removed from Passion for Freedom exhibition at London’s Mall Galleries,after police raise security concerns. Below, Guardian critic Jonathan Jones reviews the artworkVisitors to a London exhibition celebrating freedom of expression this week found plenty of familiar taboo-busting work, and from Jamie McCartney’s The distinguished Wall of Vagina,an eight-foot long cast featuring the genitals of 400 women, to Kubra Khademi’s video of an eight-minute walk through Kabul in Afganistan, or dressed in lushly contoured body armour. But they will have looked in useless for one work detailed in the catalogue by an artist known only as Mimsy. Related: The four questions we need to retort before bombing Isis or Assad | Paul Mason Related: Cameron must include Assad in any strategy to defeat Isis in Syria | Avi Shlaim Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com