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.
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.