The issue has crossed the Atlantic, where the Old Vic Theatre has been rocked by allegations
against former artistic director Kevin Spacey, and London police are investigating nine claims of sexual assault by Weinstein.
One of Britain's most original and inventive sculptors, Penelope Curtis,
former director of Tate Britain, has described Flanagan as «a maverick figure but a maverick who was absolutely central to the
artistic conversation of the 1960s and 70s».2 One of the influential generation of artists studying at St Martin's School of Art in the early to mid-1960s, Flanagan reacted
against the formal rigidity of sculpture at that time, challenging the nature of the medium and contributing to a new understanding of the practice.