> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://hyperallergic.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Nan Goldin's Battle Against Censorship - URL: https://hyperallergic.com/nan-goldin-speaks-out-against-cencorship/ - Published: 2026-01-28T11:00:00.000Z - Updated: 2026-01-28T11:00:02.000Z - Description: Also: Street signs against fascism, Gabrielle Goliath's lesson in resistance, and how Joan Miró fell in love with America. - Author: Hyperallergic - Tags: Daily Newsletter, Newsletter News broke last week that the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) passed on acquiring a work by Nan Goldin after some committee members accused the artist — who is Jewish — of antisemitism over her vocal stance against Israel's genocide in Gaza. In an interview with *Hyperallergic* today, Goldin calls it what it is: censorship. The photographer and activist has long defended the human rights of Palestinians and other oppressed people, and denounced the conflation of antisemitism and anti-Zionism. The AGO's decision to vote against the acquisition is just the latest incident in a distressing, ongoing pattern of institutions silencing speech in support of Gaza. —*Valentina Di Liscia, senior editor* --- [![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/2026/01/image-106.png)](https://hyperallergic.com/nan-goldin-speaks-out-on-censorship-at-art-gallery-of-ontario/) Nan Goldin, ”Stendhal Syndrome” 2024 (video still) (© Nan Goldin, courtesy the artist and Gagosian) ### [Nan Goldin Speaks Out on Art Gallery of Ontario’s Halted Acquisition](https://hyperallergic.com/nan-goldin-speaks-out-on-censorship-at-art-gallery-of-ontario/) “It’s chilling that this censorship plays out especially regarding Palestine, the great exception to free speech,” Goldin said*.* "I worry about how many other people are experiencing this kind of censorship without it being reported.” --- SPONSORED [![CTA Image](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/2026/01/2400x1350_NIVIA.HERNANDEZ.2025.AUGUST2025-512-3.jpg)](https://hyperallergic.com/reach-new-creative-heights-at-sva-continuing-education/) ****Reach New Creative Heights at SVA Continuing Education** The School of Visual Arts in NYC offers more than 200 in-person and online courses, along with 10+ artist residency programs. [Learn more ](https://hyperallergic.com/reach-new-creative-heights-at-sva-continuing-education/) ## News [![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/2026/01/image-109-1.png)](https://hyperallergic.com/studio-museum-closed-for-the-week-after-water-damage/) The Studio Museum in Harlem last week (photo used with permission) - The Studio Museum in Harlem will [remain temporarily closed until February 7](https://hyperallergic.com/studio-museum-closed-for-the-week-after-water-damage/) to remediate water damage from a “sprinkler emergency” last weekend. The museum reopened to the public on November 15 after a seven-year closure and the construction of a new building by Adjaye Associates with Cooper Robertson. --- ## Attention, Fascism Ahead [![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/2026/01/image-107-1.png)](https://hyperallergic.com/artists-street-signs-in-philadelphia-warn-of-fascism-ahead/) Sign by Make it Weird and Resistance Ephemera installed in the Fishtown neighborhood of Philadelphia in October 2025 (photo courtesy the artist) An artist who goes by Make it Weird [has installed signs mimicking common traffic signage across Philadelphia](https://hyperallergic.com/artists-street-signs-in-philadelphia-warn-of-fascism-ahead/) to alert residents of ICE threats and looming authoritarianism. One of the signs reads: "Somewhere in America, a little girl is hiding in an attic writing about ICE." Isabella Segalovich reports from Philadelphia. --- SPONSORED [![CTA Image](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/2026/01/FOV_Sandcastles_Hyperallergic_SponsoredPost_2400x1350_01-6.png)](https://hyperallergic.com/sandcastles-tells-the-tale-of-two-singapores/) ***Sandcastles** **Tells the Tale of Two Singapores** The new short from documentary filmmaker and multimedia journalist Carin Leong explores the transient nature of humankind’s existence through sand. [Learn more ](https://hyperallergic.com/sandcastles-tells-the-tale-of-two-singapores/) --- ## Opinion [![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/2026/01/image-103-1.png)](https://hyperallergic.com/gabrielle-goliath-strikes-a-tuning-fork-of-dissent/) Gabrielle Goliath, "Elegy - Eunice Ntombifuthi Dube" (2018) at the Centre for the Less Good Idea in Johannesburg (photo by Stella Tate, all images courtesy the artist) ### [Gabrielle Goliath Strikes a Tuning Fork of Dissent](https://hyperallergic.com/gabrielle-goliath-strikes-a-tuning-fork-of-dissent/) When South Africa's culture minister abruptly cancelled its Venice Biennale pavilion artwork because it addressed the genocide in Gaza, it seemed a strange yet all-too-familiar contradiction. Why would a nation that accused Israel of genocide at the International Court of Justice censor an artwork that mourns Palestinian lives? Was the culture minister merely incompetent and irrational? Scholar M. Neelika Jayawardane, who researches South African art and literature, thinks we're asking the wrong questions. She argues in an opinion today that this example, and the art piece by Gabrielle Goliath at its heart, reveals a broader framework of state censorship that artists are uniquely positioned to resist. --- ## From Our Critics [![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/2026/01/image-104.png)](https://hyperallergic.com/how-joan-miro-and-america-fell-in-love/) Atelier 17, a meeting point for European and American artists in New York (Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, photo © Martin Harris) ### [How Joan Miró and America Fell in Love](https://hyperallergic.com/how-joan-miro-and-america-fell-in-love/) “In the future world, America, with its energy and vitality, must play a leading role,” he told Matisse. | Lauren Moya Ford ### [For Dyani White Hawk, Love Is an Act of Resistance](https://hyperallergic.com/for-dyani-white-hawk-love-is-an-act-of-resistance/) Her exhibition "Love Language" invites viewers into the vibrant cultural legacies of Native art, and connections to land, lineage, and community. | Sheila Dickinson --- ## Member Comment Linda Dunne on John Yau's "[Jeff Koons’s Reflective Sculptures Mirror the One Percent](https://hyperallergic.com/jeff-koonss-reflective-sculptures-mirror-the-one-percent/)": Bravo, John! This is just about perfect. You slide the knife with such grace. --- ## From the Archive [![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/2026/01/image-105.png)](https://hyperallergic.com/all-the-beauty-and-the-tenderness-of-nan-goldin/) American photographer, artist, and activist Nan Goldin (photo by Max Cramer, courtesy the artist) ### [All the Beauty and the Tenderness of Nan Goldin](https://hyperallergic.com/all-the-beauty-and-the-tenderness-of-nan-goldin/) “I'm not so interested in photography anymore,” Goldin told our editor-in-chief. “That should be the headline,” he replied. | Hakim Bishara