The celebrations and events abound to commemorate the five hundredth anniversary of the death of Leonardo Da Vinci we look into the legacy of the tuscan master. Artists in poland have taken to the street and to social media to protest the decision to remove a Video Installation from the National Museum in warsaw the video in question by a prominent artist natalia l l dates from one Nine Hundred Seventy Three and depicts a young woman eating a banana in a suggestive way well although its been on display for many years conservative authorities have now branded it obscene sparking concerns that artistic freedom is under threat. Occasionally protesting can be a tasty Affair Hundreds of demonstrators gathered in front of the polish National Museum in warsaw to eat bananas together when you move all in the name of artistic
freedom. We fully reject censorship in arts over the past few years our freedoms have been increasingly compromised and now its our turn at this moment we are protesting a
reject censorship in art over the past few years our freedoms have been increasingly compromised and now it s our turn look at this we have a we are protesting against the removal of our freedom of speech artistic freedom. the debate centers around this installation by leading polish concept artist natalia el al in one nine hundred seventy three she photographed and filmed herself sent to eating a banana for six years the installation has been on display at the national museum now it s been taken down that s gold many under the hash tag banana selfie exasperated polls have been posting pictures of themselves with a banana including many celebrity artists and generalists the museum s new head. appointed by the conservative peace party says the work is a potential danger to young people. this is the national museum as such it s not the place for gender related content to be so explicitly portrayed. the protests
freedom. we fully reject censorship in arts over the past few years our freedoms have been increasingly compromised and now it s our turn at this moment we are protesting against the removal of our freedom of speech artistic freedom. the debate centers around this installation by leading polish concept artist natalia el al in one nine hundred seventy three she photographed and filmed herself sense you were eating a banana for six years the installation has been on display at the national museum now it s been taken down that s gold many under the hash tag banana selfie exasperated poles have been posting pictures of themselves with a banana including many celebrity artists and generalists the museum s new head. appointed by the conservative peace party says the work is a potential danger to young people. this is the national museum as such it s not