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Monthly Archives: December 2010
LA MOCA – the false dichotomy between censorship and sensitivity
The familiar “he said/ she said” binary so beloved of the media has shaped the controversy over LA MOCA’s whitewashing of a political mural as an opposition between those who define it as censorship and those who define it as … Continue reading
Posted in Svetlana Mintcheva: Author
Tagged art, art censorship, Blu, Jeffrey Deitch, LA Moca, mural
4 Comments
Hundreds Protest Smithsonian Censorship
This Sunday, Dec 19th, hundreds of artists, curators, queer and free speech activists, as well as other supporters of free speech gathered in front of Metropolitan Museum to take part in a rally demanding that the Smithsonian return the censored … Continue reading
Posted in Svetlana Mintcheva: Author
Tagged art censorship, david wojnarowicz, protest, smithsonian
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LA MOCA whitewashing – is it censorship?
A mural announcing LA MOCA’s upcoming Art in the Streets exhibition, a survey of street art over the past four decades, was painted over – upon orders from the Museum – shortly after it appeared on December 8th. Was this an act of censorship or an exercise of legitimate curatorial control? The answer may depend on your definition of both terms. Continue reading
Posted in Svetlana Mintcheva: Author
Tagged art censorship, Blu, censorship, Deitch, Jeffrey Deitch, LA Moca, mural, political correctness, war
3 Comments
NPG Censorship Protest in New York City – Sunday, December 19th, 1:00 PM
Stop the Censorship! Put the Wojnarowicz video back! Protest in New York City – Sunday, December 19th, 1:00 PM (details below) Send a message to the Smithsonian Institution and all of its museums: Stop the Censorship. Late in November the … Continue reading
NCAC censored!
Censorship incidents on the web are more and more common, but it’s still rare when they happen to an anti-censorship organization like the NCAC. Network Solutions, a company providing web services, has threatened to remove TheFileroom.org, an interactive archive of … Continue reading
Protest against Censorship at National Portrait Gallery
This is from an attendant at the protest organized by Transformer on Thursday, Dec. 2nd: The protest’s silence was very effective. The rows standing mute along the entire width of north steps of the Portrait Gallery for about 25 minutes … Continue reading
Production of to Kill a Mockingbird will go forward!
Victory: the Flagler Palm Coast High School production of Harper Lee’s TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD will be staged in the auditorium on February 24, 25, and 26 (two shows). It will be staged AS WRITTEN! The production was canceled last … Continue reading
