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Tag Archives: art
Why is this artist’s work “too controversial” for an art center exhibition?
As a dues-paying member of the Emerald Art Center in Springfield, OR, Linda Cunningham prepared a piece of work for the monthly members’ show. The “pastoral” works of other members were accepted without incident, but Cunningham’s three-dimensional piece was deemed … Continue reading
Posted in Acacia O'Connor: Author
Tagged art, art and censorship, Emerald Art Center, Eugene, Linda Cunningham, oregon, The Register-Guard
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On the First Day of Censorship, the Censors Gave to Me…
This post is part of our Twelve Days of Censorship series, reporting the gifts of the Ghosts of Censors Past and Present in honor of the holiday season. On the First Day of Censorship, the Censors Gave to Me… … Continue reading
Posted in Acacia O'Connor: Author
Tagged 12 Days of Censorship, art, arts advocacy project, Newark, public library
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Art, Porn and Censorship: the Mansfield Art Center (OH) Covers up Painting
A painting, included in a juried exhibition show at the Mansfield Art Center in Ohio, was partially covered with black paper. The painting had been selected for inclusion in the show, but the management of the Art Center decided that the … Continue reading
Posted in Svetlana Mintcheva: Author
Tagged art, art censorship, censorship, ohio, pornograpy
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Don’t Let Them Eat Cake
Sweden’s minister of culture has been in the global news spotlight recently, and not for her nation’s propensity for neo-noir literature. Minister Lena Adelson Liljeroth was invited to attend and speak at World Art Day at Stockholm’s Museum of Modern … Continue reading
Colorado Academic Center Institutes Censorship Regime After Controversy Over Student Art Work
Until a few weeks ago, the Arts Building at the Aurari Higher Education Center in Denver featured several walls emblazoned with the kindly decree to “Post Artwork Here.” However, in light of recent controversy over the graphic work that student … Continue reading
Posted in Jacqueline Sider
Tagged academic freedom, art, art censorship, student art, vandalism
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Art Succeeds in Starting a Conversation, But Some Call for the Cancellation of the Project
Update: Lawrence, KS officials have banned the project, saying the proposed art installation would amount to animal cruelty. The Kansas code allows “with respect to farm animals” for “normal or accepted practices of animal husbandry, including the normal and accepted … Continue reading
Posted in Svetlana Mintcheva: Author
Tagged Amber Hansen, animal cruelty, animal rights, art, art censorship, Kansas, public art, Spencer Museum, Story of Chickens
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Art Censorship in 2011: Nudity, Sexuality, Religion, Politics, and… Meat?!
2012 has already brought a few cases of censored art to our attention: Microsoft Skydrive froze UK blogger Michael Ohajuru‘s storage account because Modigliani’s painting “Reclining Nude” violated Microsoft’s Code of Conduct which prohibits images that “depict nudity of any sort”; and İzmir … Continue reading
Posted in Megan Bellamy: Author
Tagged 2011, art, art censorship, facebook censorship, maine labor mural, nudity, youtube
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