The first, and the lasting, impression one gets from Canterbury Cathedral’s new graffiti-style art instillation is just how reasonable and normal are the questions it quite literally poses. That’s some feat for an exhibition that purports to be ‘thought-provoking’ and ‘dynamic’ while simultaneously attracting such derision – even provoking the ire of the US vice president, J.D. Vance. Echoing the feelings of many people in this country, he asked why the cathedral’s curators had to make a ‘beautiful historical building really ugly’.

What really gets people riled about this exhibition is not so much the questions it raises, but its motives and its methods

Yet there’s nothing shocking in the concerns expressed in the brightly coloured tags affixed to the walls throughout the building (they’

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