This must go down in the annals of journalistic bloopers:
A photo in today’s London Daily Mail, shows an outrageously attired (isn’t he always?) Elton John, above the caption: “Sir Elton photograph has been found not to be an indecent image.” Actually, that image of the rock star, decked out head-to-toe in shiny blue polka dots, DOES seem to cross all boundaries of propriety!
But what they’re really talking about, of course, is the favorable review by the Crown Prosecution Service for this image, “Edda and Klara Belly Dancing” by Nan Goldin, seized last month as possible child pornography.
Can the Goldin show from which it was nabbed at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, England, go back up now? The Daily Mail reports:
The Baltic Centre declined to comment on today’s announcement.
UPDATE: I just revisited the Daily Mail website, and found that the caption beneath the polka-dotted photograph has been changed to: “Sir Elton John: his photo was ruled not indecent.” Nice try, but I don’t think that quite does it.