And rebecca horn is germanys gong performance and installation art is famous for her exploration of body extensions and machines and turns seventy five on sunday and take a look back at her. An exhibition that looks at the influence of late pop star Michael Jackson on art and on other artists has opened in bonn and the bonus points tyler thats hosting it is having to justify the decision to go ahead with it and the show opens just weeks after the h. B. O. Documentary leaving neverland made new allegations of jacksons alleged sexual. Abuse of children forcing us to consider the king of pop in a new light. Who was this man who millions of fans still hail as the king of pop this exhibition portrays Michael Jackson through the work of more than forty contemporary artists they include some well known works like these portraits by
andy warhol but should the singer still be given center stage in light of the most recent accusations of sexual abuse this exhibition is controversial. We have new
and it s not really even about a right it s about his it s not even about his work it s about the sort of impact that he has had that michael jackson s had on pop culture and and that impact of course is undeniable i mean whatever you think about what do you think the man has or hasn t done his impact on our popular culture has been enormous and i think i think it s actually a great thing that the the organizers of this exhibit have said we want to discuss this we want people to think about these new allegations and look at this exhibit. in that light and i do and so we have that discussion as opposed to trying to ban or boycott it you know why has this film had such an impact now it s interesting because the film of finding neverland levy. neverland it doesn t bring up any really new allegations these two men are going public for the first time in this way but it isn t they don t provide any new evidence what they do do and the what the film is very very powerful because of it is it s
his lifetime. and joining me is my colleague scott rockstro thanks for coming in scott this is so interesting because obviously this exhibition was shown first at the national portrait gallery in london last year then went on to paris and that was of course before anyone had ever even seen leaving leaving neverland which premiered just now in january now there is practically no mention no reference to any of these sexual abuse allegations at the time even though they had been around obviously for a very long time as is all this finger pointing at the museum in bonn just a bit misplaced yeah i think so i mean i don t think you can blame the museum that it s opening the u.s. this exhibit now at a time where these new allegations of made public and that s what everyone s talking about and they ve made the argument i think it s a justify one that this isn t an exhibit praising or celebrating michael jackson