'There is no route to victory in the culture wars in defending the indefensible.' | Writes CitySamuel
The Tate drew mockery last year for staging an exhibition of Hogarth paintings with an absurd set of apologia under them, which speculated moralistically over the works’ real or imagined links with sexism, colonialism, slavery and so on. At the risk of inciting the statue-topplers, I think it only fair to mention that over the Easter holiday I came across a similar sort of propaganda, this time written by “the other side” to defend its subject from some imagined criticism at the Tower of London.
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