On the display of shocking art: get a room

The Guardian reports that a gallery in the small Welsh town of Hay-on-Wye was investigated (though not prosecuted) by police after complaints of a painting placed in the gallery’s front window. At artsjournal.com, where I first found this story, the very knowing headline is “Some Welsh folks called the police on a gallery’s front window”, and so we know where this is all going: rural rubes can’t handle art.With its literary festival and numerous book