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Child porn police seize gallery art Metro.co.uk

Child porn police seize gallery art

Tuesday, September 25, 2007

 

The £46million Baltic Centre

Police have raided an acclaimed museum and confiscated a work of art alleged to be child porn.

Officers took away an image of a child from the £46million Baltic Centre in Gateshead.

Crown Prosecution Service lawyers are now considering whether the artwork breaches child pornography laws.

The allegedly offending image is not thought to have been seen yet by members of the public.

Police said they acted after being contacted for advice by managers of the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art on Gateshead's Quayside.

Artists displayed at the venue include American artist Nan Goldin, using photos donated from Sir Elton John's collection.

The rock star bought Goldin's series of pictures called Exhibition, after attending an exhibition 16 years ago.

Fellow US photographer Kendell Geers, accused by some critics of blasphemy, is also exhibiting at the centre.

But police and Baltic bosses have refused to name the artwork seized or the artist.

The gallery has attracted an estimated 2.5million visitors since opening five years ago.

[Billthedrill]

Sir Elton is interested in girls?

[Enchante]

Hey, if it’s “art” then “anything goes” - right? /s

It continues to amaze me how self-styled “artists” think that the more disgusting something is, the more avant-garde cache it deserves......

[Utah Binger]

Suck in all the idiots with this typical publicity stunt. Now we get to hear from Sir Elton as he makes an effort to make us all believe it is art while the politically correct idiots kiss his queer behind.

[Hyzenthlay]

If people are paying to see or own a piece of artwork or copies of that piece, or in some cases even if it’s just being displayed as ‘art’, it definitely needs a model release, which should be signed by the girls’ parents if the girls are under 18. Therefore, the issue of whether or not the girls were underage should be easy to determine. Unless, there is no model release, in which case the artist may get in trouble for lack of a model release. The artist is only going to be completely technically innocent if she can prove that everyone in the pictures are young-looking adults.

[Leo Farnsworth]

EJ is one messed up dude. Always has been. This does not surprise...

[ninonitti]

I remember when rock was young;

Me and Suzy had so much fun......

[Brett66]

When you think about who was knighted back in the 15th- 16th century, they sure have lowered the bar. Johnny would be nothing more than a court jester back then.

[mrmargaritaville]

hey elton, prison ain’t so bad-three squares a day and all the sex you want.

[IronJack]

George Michael, Boy George, Pete Townshend, now Elton Queen. It’s dangerous to your masculinity to become a British rock musician.

[pianomikey]

We always seem to be pushing the envelope a little bit more every day... we need a schlafly-esque crusader to say “thus far and no farther” with respect to Art, so this crap doesn’t keep floating to the top.

[A_perfect_lady]

Why do people get such a jolly out of being creepy with kids?? I just do not get it.

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

Coming soon to a neigborhood near you!

[Rastus]

I’d love to see John go down over this.

Hmm. Maybe that’s not the best phrase where he’s involved, but you get the idea.

[Old Professer]

Wow, that's got to be the biggest window A/C unit in the world...