The Saatchi Gallery near Swiss Cottage has been raided by the police for allegedly indecent photographs, following information reported to them by the News of the World alleged 'newspaper'.The NotW has been conducting a hate campaign which has already resulted in lynch-mobs targetting wrong addresses and entirely unconnected people with similar names.
This seems to be the latest event in a string of puritanic cases including Mapplethorpe and Somerville in this decade, and which has actually continued unabated since the notorious 'Lady Chatterley' trial some 40 years ago ! The lesson is simple; the police never give up, so a right won in recent history will be continually attacked, and must therefore be continually defended.
The exhibition, entitled "I am a camera" is comprised of several exhibitors, the one controversial element being by Gearney Readon, and can be found at 98 Boundary Road, Underground station Swiss Cottage, Thursdays to Sundays only until end of March. The Independent on Sunday newspaper is a chief sponsor and has declared its confidence in the artistic integrity of the matter by offering half-price tickets (see yesterday's edition) !