An embroidery artist, Jess de Wahls, was recently “cancelled” by the Royal Academy (R.A.) for having posted blogs in which she questioned some contemporary ideas about gender. She had been attacked, often viciously, on social media, and the R.A. in its wisdom decided to remove her work from its shop. They were obliged to do this, they said, because they “stand with the LGBT community”.
Jephtha at the ROH: compromise is not in Oliver Mears’s dictionary
In the closing moments, Mears delivered a coup de théâ which left his audience visibly shaken.
