The exhibition Return To Sender, co-organized by Mariame Kaba with PEN America, explores the prison industrial complex’s mechanisms of silencing.
Censorship
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Florida School Accused of Censoring Show About Police Violence — And Lying About It
Daytona State College abruptly withdrew a show of Jon Henry’s photographs depicting Black mothers, citing HVAC issues. Others say that wasn’t the real reason.
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Artists Sound the Alarm on Censorship in Spain
The suppression of films, plays, and other content expressing LGBTQ+ and feminist views in recent months has begun to raise the ghosts of Spain’s fascist past.
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Arizona City to Restore Exhibition Series After Censorship Backlash
But it is unclear whether the Mesa Arts Center’s shows will include the Shepard Fairey anti-police artwork that the City of Mesa had asked to withdraw.
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Artists Decry “Censorship” of Shepard Fairey Anti-Police Artwork
The city of Mesa canceled a series of shows of political street art just weeks after the museum refused to withdraw Fairey’s work depicting a police officer in riot gear.
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Indigenous Artist’s “Defund the Police” Banner Removed from Oregon Exhibition
Demian DinéYazhi’ says the Chehalem Cultural Center has “chosen to stand on the side of conservative extremism and fear.”
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How a Bill to Protect Children Online Threatens Artists
Decried by human and digital rights groups, the EARN IT Act threatens to undermine privacy and freedom of expression online.
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Portugal Hospital Removes Artwork About Its Slavery Ties
Dori Nigro and Paulo Pinto’s work discusses the Centro Hospitalar Conde de Ferreira, funded in part by the trafficking of enslaved people from Angola to Brazil.
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Prison Abolition Art in Florida Removed Under University Pressure
The University of Florida’s off-campus art gallery was vandalized after the school asked its curator to take down banners criticizing the local police department.
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Is the “Free the Nipple” Movement Too White?
Online representations of the activists lean White and thin, creating an image problem for the movement.
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India Tries to Block Documentary Critical of Modi
Multiple posts about the film have been taken down on Twitter, many of them following the government’s removal requests.
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Russian Artist Faces Three-Year Jail Sentence for Sculpture Said to “Rehabilitate Nazism”
But artist Oleg Kulik insists the sculpture is about his separation from his wife.
