{"id":33052,"date":"2018-03-19T14:36:23","date_gmt":"2018-03-19T13:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/03\/19\/the-vitriol-was-really-unhealthy-artist-sonia-boyce-on-the-row-over-taking-down-hylas-and-the-nymphs\/"},"modified":"2018-03-19T14:36:23","modified_gmt":"2018-03-19T13:36:23","slug":"the-vitriol-was-really-unhealthy-artist-sonia-boyce-on-the-row-over-taking-down-hylas-and-the-nymphs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=33052","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The vitriol was really unhealthy\u2019: artist Sonia Boyce on the row over taking down Hylas and the Nymphs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When John William Waterhouse\u2019s 1896 painting was taken off the walls of Manchester Art Gallery, furious critics described it as censorship or a publicity stunt. That couldn\u2019t be further from the truth, says the artist at the centre of the stormWhen John William Waterhouse\u2019s painting Hylas and the Nymphs was removed from the walls of the Manchester Art Gallery at the end of January, all hell broke loose. Social media was electric with outraged cries of \u201ccensorship\u201d. The critic Jonathan Jones asked whether this was the thin end of the wedge: would Picasso be off the walls next?An Oxford professor of German wrote to the Guardian warning that this had happened before: Nazi curators had taken down works because they had \u201cconflicted with their political aims and puritanical taste\u201d. Messages poured into the museum\u2019s website: some in support but more of them against. There were worries that the removal was an act of politically correct virtue signalling; wasn\u2019t so far down the line from book-burning; was feminist extremism \u201cat its worst\u201d. There was also plain old irritation that a much-loved painting was not on view when visitors had travelled to see it. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2018\/mar\/19\/hylas-nymphs-manchester-art-gallery-sonia-boyce-interview\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018The vitriol was really unhealthy\u2019: artist Sonia Boyce on the row over taking down Hylas and the Nymphs<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When John William Waterhouse\u2019s 1896 painting was taken off the walls of Manchester Art Gallery, furious critics described it as censorship or a publicity stunt. That couldn\u2019t be further from the truth, says the artist at the centre of the stormWhen John William Waterhouse\u2019s painting Hylas and the Nymphs was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}