My only regret was that they didn't have my favourite G&G anecdote. When Milton Keynes decided that they'd had enough of being the butt of everyone's jokes, they built themselves a art gallery (in the 'theatre quarter', I kid you not). The opening exhibition was a G&G exhibition, which is fairly bold for a provincial gallery at the best of times.
A citizen of Milton Keynes, keen to impress her primary school-aged children with notions of culture, took them to see the G&G, and was rather disgusted. Disgusted enough, in fact, to phone the police and complain about the obscene materials on view to all, even children. To their credit, the police rolled up to the gallery, looked at the exhbition and dismissed the complaint out of hand, on the grounds that it was Art and therefore not obscene.
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My only regret was that they didn't have my favourite G&G anecdote. When Milton Keynes decided that they'd had enough of being the butt of everyone's jokes, they built themselves a art gallery (in the 'theatre quarter', I kid you not). The opening exhibition was a G&G exhibition, which is fairly bold for a provincial gallery at the best of times.
A citizen of Milton Keynes, keen to impress her primary school-aged children with notions of culture, took them to see the G&G, and was rather disgusted. Disgusted enough, in fact, to phone the police and complain about the obscene materials on view to all, even children. To their credit, the police rolled up to the gallery, looked at the exhbition and dismissed the complaint out of hand, on the grounds that it was Art and therefore not obscene.
Wonderful.
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