In Russia the exhibition End of fun by Jake and
Dinos Chapman is being investigated for a possible prosecution under the
country’s extremism laws. The offensive content is in the form of tiny figures
in Nazi uniforms. In the last two months our RSS feed tagged to ‘swastika’ has
captured over 100 stories from around the world featuring the outrage,
indignation and prosecutions caused by swastikas being displayed, used as
Christmas decorations, sprayed on gravestones and Obama posters etc.
Meanwhile
in Germany the New Zealand exhibition Contact could feature a painting by Peter
Robinson with a swastika and the words ‘Pakeha has rights too’ and raise not a
peep. What does an exhibition have to do to get a little attention? We can’t
find any reviews of the show, and certainly nothing on the Min of Culture and Heritage’s site or even the NZ at Frankfurt sub site. Maybe some sort of record
has been broken here.
