After a months-long dispute, the 160-foot artwork was recently removed from Jack Shainman Gallery’s upstate outpost, but a recent vote ruled that Cave’s message was “a political message and art” and therefore protected by the First Amendment.
Author Archives: Laura van Straaten
Laura van Straaten has reported about art and culture from more than a dozen countries for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal Magazine, New York, The Hollywood Reporter, Departures, and many of the top English-language art publications and sites in the U.S., Europe and West Asia. She lives in Manhattan where she is at work on a play and a memoir.
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When Nick Cave’s Truth Was Told in Kinderhook, New York
A local zoning appeals board hearing will soon decide whether Cave’s colossal textual work, “Truth Be Told,” is art protected by the First Amendment, or rather a sign that may be regulated by law.