Foetus Art Withdrawn

As an ethics panel meets to discuss whether an artwork featuring a foetus's head should be on display, the owner weighs in on the controversy, swissinfo reports. Art collector Uli Sigg, a former Swiss ambassador to China, spoke after Bern's Fine Arts Museum withdrew the piece in response to a complaint, and set up the panel to discuss the work. Sigg said that the piece had been shown before—at the Venice Biennale in 1999—without controversy. Bern's Fine Arts Museum has temporarily withdrawn the work, which features a foetus head attached to a seagull's body, from a temporary exhibition of contemporary Chinese art. For the full story - click the title Irish Art