Art exhibition

London venue cancels ‘grotesque’ antisemitic art exhibition following UKLFI complaint

A controversial art exhibition featuring antisemitic imagery was canceled in London after UK Lawyers for Israel raised concerns. The show depicted Jews in grotesque caricatures and blood libel.

|ByMATHILDA HELLER
Exhibition 'Drawings Against Genocide' by British artist and art critic Matthew Collings.
Exhibition 'Drawings Against Genocide' by British artist and art critic Matthew Collings.

UK art exhibition sparks outrage over drawings of Jews eating babies, Oct. 7 rape denial

An art show in Kent is under fire for drawings critics say echo antisemitic tropes, fueling debate over free expression and the limits of political critique.

|ByMATHILDA HELLER
The two artists whose work is in the ‘Yakir’s Light’ exhibition: Chaya Hexter and her son Yakir Hexter, who served as a combat engineer in the 8219th Battalion of the Commando Special Forces Unit and was killed in Gaza in January 2024.

Exhibition 'Yakir's Light' brings together art by a fallen soldier and his mother

The show combines drawings and photographs with pictures of architectural projects, which is a little unusual. Additionally, one artist is living, and the other is dead, which is very unusual.

|ByHANNAH BROWN