Collectors Withdraw Art in Response to Barbican's Palestine Censorship

Originally published on Hypeart.comArtworks were pulled out from the Barbican in London in protest of the cancellation of a lecture titled "The Shoah after Gaza" by Indian writer Pankaj Mishra, as per a report by The Guardian. This move sparked a response from collectors Lorenzo Legarda Leviste and Fahad Mayet, who demanded the removal of two quilts by artist Loretta Pettway from the exhibition Unravel: The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art. Leviste and Mayet expressed their discontent with ...