Sensation (art exhibition) was over "Myra", an image of the murderer Myra Hindley by Marcus Harvey. The Mothers Against Murder and Aggression protest group picketed the show, accompanied by Winnie Johnson, the mother of one of Hindley's victims. They asked for the portrait, which is made up of hundreds of copies of a child's handprint, to be excluded to protect Johnson's feelings. Along with supporters she picketed the show's first day. Myra Hindley sent a letter from jail suggesting that her portrait be removed from the exhibition, reasoning that such action was necessary because the work was "a sole disregard not only for
Portrait of Contemporary (Leningrad, 1976) Leningrad School. In the Department of Sculptures were exhibited art works of 106 sculptors. Department of graphics presented a creation of 81 artists. For the Exhibition were selected art works created in 1975-1976, also some earlier works. All they were exhibited in the first time. Some of them were subsequently found in the collections of leading Soviet Art museums, as well as domestic and foreign galleries and collectors. Portrait of workers of Science and Culture was presented of ""Portrait entomologist S. Keleynikova"" by Taisia Afonina, ""Portrait of actress Olga Volkova"" by Dmitry Belyaev, ""Architect A. Vasiliev"" by Nikolai Galakhov, ""Portrait