Artist Pulls Video From Museum Over Disputed Claims About Churchill

Artist Pulls Video From Museum Over Disputed Claims About Churchill

Artist Helen Cammock removed a 40-minute video from the National Portrait Gallery on 23 June after critics said it wrongly accused Winston Churchill of deliberately starving people in Bengal in 1943. A biographer defending Churchill's record challenged the claim publicly on 15 June. The dispute shows how museums struggle between letting artists speak freely and protecting their own reputation.

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