BBC News opened its weekly arts round up, presented by Tina Daheley, with the two Arab Spring paintings removed from our booth at Art Dubai 2012, when the gallery was called Artspace.
The video report was published on 22 March 2012 and first appeared under the title Controversy over Arab Spring paintings. Its summary describes two contentious works about the Arab Spring removed from the annual Dubai art fair, followed by other arts stories of the week, including a London stage play in which the devil visits Moscow.
The paintings were the two works The National reported as taken down from our booth on the advice of security officers: You Were My Only Love by the Moroccan artist Zakaria Ramhani, based on a widely published image of a woman beaten by Egyptian police, and After Washing by the Palestinian artist Shadi Alzaqzouq, which shows a masked protester holding up underwear printed with the Arabic word for "leave". Both were among the centrepieces of the display, and the gallery's art director at the time said they had been cleared in advance by the fair.
The BBC coverage, together with a report on BBC News Arabic the day before, carried the story well beyond Dubai. The gallery listed the video on its press page in 2012, and it remains a record of how directly our programme engaged with the events of 2011.