Lovely black bikini

London Underground bosses objected earlier this year at a nude portrait of Venus being used to promote the Cranach exhibition at the Royal Academy.

There were fears that it might be defaced by outraged Islamists and others whose sensitivities were more to themselves than to art.

For anyone who wonders what such a defacement might have looked like, this is a cover of the TLS containing Timothy Hyman's excellent review, sent by a reader from eastern parts (not a renownedly extremist realm) after it had passed through the local security forces.

Someone has worked really hard at this.

Such a  bikini and skirt do not come wihout effort - even pleasure perhaps - on the part of the penman.

And he was not even waiting for a train.

Comments

[Terence Hale]

Hi,
London Underground bosses; Culture, Asceticism (Greek: askēsis) or expression has more forms of duality which should or must be have respect before religion. If God does not exist we must invent him.
Regards Dr. Terence Hale