‘Taxpayers are fed up with these indulgences’
the pandemic it was awarded £789,000 from the £1.57billion Culture Recovery Fund and two of its executives are paid more than £100,000 a year.
Exhibition curators Elio Sea and Yves Sanglante say in publicity material that ‘full decriminalisation of sex work is the rallying cry that unites the sex worker rights movement across the world’.
But the event, which begins later this month, with a £5 entry fee for those who are not ICA members, has sparked controversy.
John O’Connell, chief executive of the TaxPayers’ Alliance, said: ‘Families facing a record tax burden are fed up with funding such cultural indulgences. Ministers must get a grip on grants for the arts and ensure taxpayers’ money is not being wasted.’
The row comes as the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, which criminalises paying for sex and would shut online sites where sex workers advertise, goes through Parliament.