What a weird situation it is that the painter Donald Friend once treasured by Robert Hughes for the lyricism of his drawing – OK, minor but grand – should now be effectively banned by every art gallery in the country because his diaries (his stunning candid and eloquent diaries) reveal that in Bali he had sex with underage boys.
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