Edinburgh Airport in Picasso nude complaints U-turn

Nude Woman in a Red Armchair was covered up at the airport Edinburgh Airport has reversed its decision to cover up a poster featuring a Picasso nude following complaints. Nude Woman in a Red Armchair was advertising the Picasso and Modern British Art exhibition at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art. However, the airport decided to cover the image after several complaints from passengers in international arrivals [...] John Leighton, director-general of the National Galleries of Scotland, said: "It is obviously bizarre that all kinds of images of women in various states of dress and undress can be used in contemporary advertising without comment, but somehow a painted nude by one of the world's most famous artists is found to be disturbing and has to be removed...