peasepud 59 Posted September 26, 2007 Share Posted September 26, 2007 You never got this with Monet Police are continuing to examine an art exhibit seized from a Tyneside gallery amid fears it may have breached child pornography laws. The image is being examined by Northumbria Police to determine whether it is legal. A police spokeswoman said the item was taken from Gateshead's Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art on Thursday. A spokeswoman for the gallery, which opened in 2002, said no exhibitions were being removed as a result. Police were alerted by Baltic managers the day before a number of exhibits were due to be unveiled. The artist's name has not been released, but according to the Baltic website, five exhibitions were due to open to the public last Friday. A spokeswoman for Northumbria Police said: "We attended the Baltic last Thursday at the invitation of management, who were seeking advice about an item from an exhibition prior to it going on public display. This item is being assessed and Northumbria Police, in consultation with the CPS, is investigating the circumstances surrounding it." A CPS spokeswoman confirmed that in such cases its experts gave police preliminary advice but she said that it would not be involved in the investigation until a file had been received from officers. The £46m modern art gallery, on Gateshead's Quayside, has attracted 2.5m visitors since it opened. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tyne/7011825.stm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob W 0 Posted September 26, 2007 Share Posted September 26, 2007 if the managers were worried it must be pretty rough stuff................................... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meenzer 15872 Posted September 26, 2007 Share Posted September 26, 2007 Either that or this country is gripped by POLITICAL CORRECTNESS GONE MAD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alex Posted September 26, 2007 Share Posted September 26, 2007 The Baltic is shit anyway Shame, as it could be class. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fop 1 Posted September 26, 2007 Share Posted September 26, 2007 Either that or this country is gripped by POLITICAL CORRECTNESS GONE MAD In this case maybe more over zealous interpretation of legislation GONE MAD Still censoring "art" was always one of the last taboos, be interesting to see if we ever find out what this was about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meenzer 15872 Posted September 26, 2007 Share Posted September 26, 2007 It'll probably just be a fairly innocuous picture of a naked bairn that some jobsworth has identified as CHILD-PORNTASTIC because they want to protect the children (and not at all because it made them think nasty things). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sima 0 Posted September 26, 2007 Share Posted September 26, 2007 Probably like the Brasseye art in the Paedogeddon special tbh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alex Posted September 26, 2007 Share Posted September 26, 2007 I wonder how many of the 2.5m visitors have been more than once. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alex Posted September 26, 2007 Share Posted September 26, 2007 Probably like the Brasseye art in the Paedogeddon special tbh I was on about that the other day. Class. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meenzer 15872 Posted September 26, 2007 Share Posted September 26, 2007 The Baltic is shit anyway Shame, as it could be class. Aye. I wouldn't go so far as to say it's shit, but there's definitely an opportunity being missed somewhere along the line. I'd rephrase your question to "I wonder how many of the 2.5 million visitors only went for the view from the top", mind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alex Posted September 26, 2007 Share Posted September 26, 2007 I've been a few times and, in the main, I've not seen much good stuff. Like a lot of modern art galleries the shop is probably the best thing about the place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sweetleftpeg 0 Posted September 26, 2007 Share Posted September 26, 2007 (edited) Whenever I go to the Baltic they have loads of floors shut, you can only go and see a couple of things. Best thing I ever saw there was the guy who had the tunnel with all the teles in and you got to go down the slide at the end. Edited September 26, 2007 by sweetleftpeg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alex Posted September 26, 2007 Share Posted September 26, 2007 That was canny good tbf. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sima 0 Posted September 26, 2007 Share Posted September 26, 2007 Why are no paedophiles black? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meenzer 15872 Posted September 26, 2007 Share Posted September 26, 2007 Why are no paedophiles black? Why can we no longer think of the British Isles without the word "paedoph" in front of them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manc-mag 1 Posted September 26, 2007 Share Posted September 26, 2007 if the managers were worried it must be pretty rough stuff................................... Not necessarily. I remember when the new laws came in and there was a lot of ambiguity. Just for a change! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manc-mag 1 Posted September 26, 2007 Share Posted September 26, 2007 Why are no paedophiles black? I read that as some sort of wistful lament. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sima 0 Posted September 26, 2007 Share Posted September 26, 2007 Why are no paedophiles black? Why can we no longer think of the British Isles without the word "paedoph" in front of them? "Dear Sir, I am a paedophile. Can I have sex with this 3-year-old girl now she is 21?" Absolutely no way You should be in a mental institution Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meenzer 15872 Posted September 26, 2007 Share Posted September 26, 2007 Paedophiles: crabs. Simple. Hold that thought. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sima 0 Posted September 26, 2007 Share Posted September 26, 2007 There's a child in Canada that's gone almost completely 2D and no-one is doing a thing about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ewerk 31604 Posted September 26, 2007 Share Posted September 26, 2007 We're after your help too. Security footage of a paedophile disguised as a school. He's been getting away with it in Sheffield for 12 years. Do you know him? Have you seen him? Please call. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ketsbaia 0 Posted September 26, 2007 Share Posted September 26, 2007 Your child could be splattered by a Roboplegic Wrongcock Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fop 1 Posted September 26, 2007 Share Posted September 26, 2007 Looks like Elton's in for it now : http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tyne/7013806.stm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fop 1 Posted September 26, 2007 Share Posted September 26, 2007 Personally it's all those cherub artworks that worry me, filth, pure paedophilic filth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alex Posted September 26, 2007 Share Posted September 26, 2007 As though Elton John is into young lasses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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