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WORLD NEWS Tuesday 30 april 2019

Ban on banana-eating artwork draws ridicule in Poland

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA with great pleasure, was fours, dressed as dogs on a
Associated Press removed from the Nation- lead, was also removed.
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A al Museum in Warsaw last On Monday, Miziolek an-
few hundred mostly young week after the new mu- nounced that the works
people jointly ate bananas seum head, Jerzy Miziolek, would be reinstated, but
outside Warsaw's top na- was summoned to the Min- only until May 6, when the
tional gallery on Monday istry of Culture. whole modern art gallery
to protest what they called Miziolek said in an inter- is due for reorganization.
censorship, after authori- view with the Onet.pl por- Miziolek and the Ministry of
ties removed artwork there tal last week that he was Culture denied there was
featuring the fruit, saying it "opposed to showing works any pressure on the mu-
was improper. that could irritate sensitive seum.
The protest was called by young people" and sug- Miziolek, who was appoint-
artists and opposition politi- gested some visitors have ed to the state-run museum
cians as part of their action complained. The work by the right-wing govern-
on Facebook and Twitter People with bananas demonstrate outside Warsaw's National had been in the gallery for ment in November, said
of posting photos of them- Museum, Poland, Monday, April 29, 2019, to protest against many years. Monday he appreciated
what they call censorship, after authorities removed an artwork
selves eating bananas in at the museum featuring the fruit, saying it was improper. A separate 2005 video by the role of both artists in Po-
order to ridicule the ban. Associated Press another controversial fe- land's culture, but the gal-
The action grew into a male artist, Katarzyna Ko- lery's limited space requires
show of apparent criticism The 1973 video "Consumer talia LL, showing a young zyra, showing a woman "creative changes" to the
of the government. Art," by prominent artist Na- woman eating a banana walking two men on all exhibition.q

Scandinavian Airlines strike in 4th day, affecting thousands

Associated Press with the SAS Pilot Group, fers on the table that they
COPENHAGEN, Denmark which represents 95% of have rejected. Having a list
(AP) — A strike among the company's pilots in the of demands that knocks off
pilots at Scandinavian three countries. the feet of our competitive-
Airlines has entered its SAS CEO Rickard Gustafson ness just doesn't work," he
fourth day with the car- on Monday urged the pi- added.
rier being forced to cancel lots to resume talks on a The pilots' negotiations,
1,213 flights Monday and new collective bargaining which started in March,
Tuesday, affecting some agreement. are mainly about salary in-
110,000 passengers. "Now we both have to take creases and working hours.
The flag carrier of Denmark, responsibility and come Details have not been re-
Norway and Sweden says back to concrete discus- leased but the pan-Scandi-
more than 170,000 passen- sions to find solutions that navian union says it wants
gers have been affected also make the company salaries to be in line with
since the open-ended have a future, even after the market rate, while SAS
strike started Friday. The this conflict," Gustafson told negotiators have called SAS planes are seen grounded at Oslo Gardermoen airport dur-
strike began after the col- Sweden's news agency TT. the requests "unreasonable ing pilots strikes, in Oslo, Friday, April 26, 2019.
lapse of pay negotiations "We have put attractive of- and extreme."q Associated Press