NYT: Gallery Patrons Ejected Over Gaza Flotilla T-Shirts

Posted on 28 December 2010 by Diane Warth

By ROBERT MACKEY

Activists were forced to leave the Gagosian gallery in New York on Dec. 18 for wearing t-shirts that read 'Next Year in Jerusalem,' in English, Hebrew and Arabic on the front and 'U.S. Boat to Gaza' and 'The Audacity of Hope,' on the back.

Photo by Laurie Arbeiter

Four activists were forced to leave an art gallery in New York this month for wearing T-shirts promoting an effort to include an American boat in the next blockade-challenging Gaza flotilla.

The incident came on the final day of an exhibition at the Gagosian Gallery called “Next Year in Jerusalem,” featuring pieces by the German artist Anselm Kiefer on the subject of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust.

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