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Charles Saatchi art exhibition has parental guidance warning

Tuesday, 10 October 2006

Charles Saatchi art exhibition has parental guidance warning

Charles Saatchi's latest modern art exhibition has been given a parental guidance warning and visitors to the USA Today show, at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, will be warned some exhibits are of a sexually explicit nature.

Amongst exhibits are semen-stained newspapers, a painting of a young girl performing a sex act on a man, and a battle scene involving rats.

Artist Dash Snow has produced a piece featuring semen-stained pages from US tabloids depicting stories about police corruption, whilst painter Gerald Davis has a work on show entitled Linsey's Poo, showing a woman and featuring an extract from her diary in which she obsesses about using the toilet.

Charles Saatchi caused a lot of controversy at the Royal Academy of Arts with the Sensation exhibition nine years ago, which featured a portrait of Moors murderer Myra Hindley made out of children's handprints and child mannequins with noses replaced by penises.

USA Today, an exhibition by Charles Saatchi, runs at the gallery from 6 October to 4 November.

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