The Channel 4 entertainment show, Jimmy Carr Destroys Art, features 'problematic art' and offers a live studio audience the chance to decide if it is kept, or destroyed by various means
A show offering an audience the chance to vote on whether to destroy art by Adolf Hitler has been called"deeply inappropriate" and accused of"trivialising the horrors of Nazism".Destroys Art, features"problematic art" and offers a live studio audience the chance to decide if it is kept, or destroyed by various means.
Responding to publicity around the show, Olivia Marks-Woldman, chief executive of the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, told Sky News:"There is nothing entertaining or laughable about Hitler or the murder of six million Jews, and the persecution of millions more. "This episode of the television series, Art Trouble [the working title of Jimmy Carr Destroys Art], is making Hitler a topic of light entertainment - this is deeply inappropriate, and at a time of increasing Holocaust distortion, dangerously trivialising.
"The question of how far art can be linked to its creators is an important one, but this programme is simply a stunt for shock value, and cannot excuse the trivialisation of the horrors of Nazism."
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