Index on Censorship » Jake and Dinos Chapman http://www.indexoncensorship.org for free expression Fri, 17 May 2013 16:22:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 for free expression Index on Censorship no for free expression Index on Censorship » Jake and Dinos Chapman http://www.indexoncensorship.org/wp-content/uploads/powerpress/Free_Speech_Bites_Logo.jpg http://www.indexoncensorship.org Russia: British artists investigated for extremism and blasphemy http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2012/12/british-artists-russia-extremism-and-blasphemy/ http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2012/12/british-artists-russia-extremism-and-blasphemy/#comments Fri, 07 Dec 2012 16:47:55 +0000 Padraig Reidy http://www.indexoncensorship.org/?p=43145 An exhibition by British artists Jake and Dinos Chapman is being investigated by St Petersburg prosecutors after visitors complained that it was “blasphemous” and “extremist”. The exhibition, at the world-famous Hermitage museum, features a crucified Ronald McDonald as well as the duo’s trademark Nazi figurines. The museum’s director Mikhail Piotrovsky slammed the complaints and investigation [...]

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]]> Jake and Dinos Chapman is being investigated by St Petersburg prosecutors after visitors complained that it was “blasphemous” and “extremist”. The exhibition, at the world-famous Hermitage museum, features a crucified Ronald McDonald as well as the duo’s trademark Nazi figurines. The museum’s director Mikhail Piotrovsky slammed the complaints and investigation as “culturally degrading to [Russian] society”. Russia’s extremism laws have been criticised for being used to shut down free speech. Last week, a video of feminist art collective Pussy Riot’s protest in a Moscow Cathedral was categorised as extremist, and blocked on the web.

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