John Lennon Art – A Group of Anarchists who object to John Lennon’s BAG ONE exhibition of original lithographs invaded the London Arts Gallery in New Bond Street, London and offered copies of some of the pictures to visitors for 6d each, Saturday 24th January 1970. The original ‘works’ would cost over °4. For some …
Detroit (AP) – An exhibit of lithographs by Beetle John Lennon opened in Detroit yesterday where two city police detectives viewed the 14 prints depicting the love life of Lennon and his wife, Yoko Ono. Eugene Schuster, owner of the London Arts Gallery, said the two detectives from the police Censor Bureau ‘took notes and …
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Detectives damningly dismissed John Lennon’s erotic drawings as the product of a sick mind. And members of the public who visited the London gallery exhibiting them in January 1970 denounced them as ‘ disgusting and repulsive’. The level of outrage provoked by the Beatle’s ‘artwork’ is revealed in official files made public for the first …
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EUGENE SCHUSTER has made an extremely good thing out of etchings. DOREEN KING, Evening News, London 1968 He’s a bright young American who had the brainwave of selling modern art as aggressively as detergent, and as simply as groceries. At his Bond-street, London, galleries the casual customer can riffle through racks of unframed lithographs. Just …
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Beatle Art Display Set For Detroit Curiosity seeking crowds are not what the London Art Gallery hopes to attract with its showing of a collection of etchings by Beatle John Lennon, according to Eugene Schuster, head of London Arts, Inc. “But when art and sex are put together, it’s hard to keep the crowds away.” …
LONDON, April 1 (Reuters)— A court was asked today to decide whether a drawing by Beatle John Lennon depicting a sex act was more obscene than a similar work by Pablo Picasso. The comparison was made before a magistrate’s court hearing a summons, alleging indecency, against the London Art Gallery. The gallery director, Eugene Schuster, …
Allegedly obscene drawings by John Lennon were compared in court yesterday with a Picasso print. The print was found by police in a drawer at an art gallery where the Lennon lithographs were on display and for sale. It was produced at Marlborough of 1 Street Magistrates’ Court ‘where Mr Eugene Schuster, the art gallery …
John Lennon’s graphic drawings of himself having sex may have escaped conviction for obscenity because of feared ramifications across the art world, newly-released files show. There were worries that art collections throughout the country could have fallen foul of the law if the case succeeded. The decision to charge gallery owner Eugene Schuster for …