GLASGOW—A controversy over an art exhibition devoted to social justice has revealed that the culture wars are not just an American phenomenon. The Glasgow Gallery of Modern Art’s “sh[OUT]: Contemporary Art and Human Rights,” which features work pertaining to religious themes and the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people has provoked criticism from some quarters.

Glasgow’s city council has banned school groups from the exhibition, which includes work from American photographers Nan Goldin, Robert Mapplethorpe, and Catherine Opie, whose sometimes frank portrayals of sex, drug use, and sadomasochism have drawn criticism in the United States as well.

Religious groups have also joined politicians in expressing outrage over a work by Jane Clark, a minister at the city’s Metropolitan Community Church, which invited visitors to use pens to write messages on a copy of the Bible on display in one of GoMA’s galleries. A notice next to the work read, “If you feel you have been excluded from the Bible, please write your way back into it.” Visitors responded by writing some messages that some viewers found offensive. Museum staff have removed the piece.

City ministry Culture and Sport Glasgow has also relocated three pieces by Dani Marti, one of which featured a video conversation with an HIV-positive man. They will be on view at the Tramway, another arts venue in the city, until the exhibition closes on Nov. 1

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