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Myra mistaken

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Published online 10 Mar 10

The illustrious Sir Norman Rosenthal, former exhibitions secretary at London's Royal Academy (RA), has revealed that his Spanish father-in-law mistook Marcus Harvey's infamous image of Moors Murderer Myra Hindley (a portrait created from the handprints of children, shown in the RA's "Sensation" exhibition of 1997) for the late Princess Diana. Sir Norman's intriguing aside over the controversial show—which inflamed ex-mayor Rudy Giuliani when it travelled to the Brooklyn Museum of Art in 1999—came during an entertaining "in conversation" last week at the Guggenheim in New York with the newly appointed director of LA MOCA, Jeffrey Deitch.

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