Journalists and critics were also quick to note a certain irony in the removal of art over hurt feelings.
People protest the detention of activist Elzbieta Podlesna, who put up posters depicting the Virgin Mary with a halo reminiscent of the LGBT rainbow flag, in Warsaw, on Tuesday. By Emily Tamkin Emily Tamkin Reporter covering foreign affairs Email Bio Follow May 9 at 10:27 AM This week, Polish protesters pounded the streets in response to what some are calling hypocritical political correctness.
On Wednesday, journalist Dominika Wielowieyska shared the image — in response to which Anna Maria Siarkowska, a right-wing Polish parliamentarian, said she should be prosecuted and punished, according to journalist Bartosz Wielinski. A few hundred people eat bananas on April 29 near Warsaw's National Museum to protest what they called censorship, after authorities removed an artwork there featuring a young woman eating the fruit. The battles over art are taking place against the broader context of the ruling party, the conservative Law and Justice, weighing in forcefully on the concept of culture in Poland.
“In the self-proclaimed land of free speech, unburdened by Western notions of political correctness, the director of Poland’s national museum has been removing works of modern art because a teenager was allegedly traumatised by images of a woman eating a banana,” Christian Davies, the Guardian’s Warsaw correspondent, tweeted in response to those who went bananas over the exhibit.
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