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London Gallery Cancels Matthew Collings Show After Antisemitism Complaints

The move highlights how legal complaints from advocacy groups can shut down shows by signaling legal exposure to venue owners.

Overview

  • Delta House Gallery in London canceled Matthew Collings’s Drawings Against Genocide after UK Lawyers for Israel challenged the planned show.
  • Pineapple Corporation chair Tom Berglund said the event was arranged without consulting the owners of the Riverside Road studios.
  • UKLFI said its letter warned the venue that the material could breach the UK Public Order Act 1986 and expose it to legal and reputational risk.
  • Media coverage cited by ARTnews included a Telegraph review calling the earlier Margate works “dripping with Jew-hate” and a Jerusalem Post account describing drawings such as one tied to businessman Patrick Drahi.
  • Collings defended the drawings on Instagram as satire aimed at Zionism rather than Jewishness, while the London run slated for May 16–24 was scrapped.