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Posted inArt

Is the “Free the Nipple” Movement Too White?

Avatar photo by Emma Shapiro March 20, 2023March 20, 2023

Online representations of the activists lean White and thin, creating an image problem for the movement.

Posted inNews

India Tries to Block Documentary Critical of Modi

Avatar photo by Taylor Michael January 26, 2023January 26, 2023

Multiple posts about the film have been taken down on Twitter, many of them following the government’s removal requests.

Posted inNews

Russian Artist Faces Three-Year Jail Sentence for Sculpture Said to “Rehabilitate Nazism”

Avatar photo by Elaine Velie May 2, 2022May 2, 2022

But artist Oleg Kulik insists the sculpture is about his separation from his wife.

Posted inNews

Maus Sales Spike After Tennessee School Board Ban

by Hakim Bishara January 31, 2022January 31, 2022

Banned for its “profanity and nudity,” the acclaimed Holocaust graphic novel is now leading Amazon’s bestselling books charts.

Posted inArt

All These Artworks Have Been Censored By Instagram

Avatar photo by Valentina Di Liscia August 17, 2021August 18, 2021

The Facebook-owned social platform has taken down drawings, photographs, paintings, and sculptures depicting nudity, even in partial or abstracted form.

Posted inNews

Belarusian Police Raid Homes of Curators, Detaining Five

Avatar photo by Dorian Batycka May 26, 2021May 31, 2021

A Belarusian art exhibition untangling the country’s response to the coronavirus was closed by authorities this March, leading to the arrest of several of its organizers.

Posted inOpinion

UK’s Threat to Punish Museums for Removing Colonial Statues Is Colonialism 101

Avatar photo by Aditya Iyer March 10, 2021March 10, 2021

The British government’s new “free speech champion,” Oliver Dowden, has threatened museums with funding cuts if they remove controversial statues.

Posted inOpinion

How Miami’s Museum of Art and Design Censored Forensic Architecture and Retreated From Social Justice

Avatar photo by Sophie Landres February 26, 2021February 26, 2021

In hiring me to curate Forensic Architecture’s first US survey exhibition, the museum mouthed the words of social justice but with the realization that those words would preface consequences, it began to choke.

Posted inNews

Theater Ensemble Targeted in Turkey for Kurdish Performances; Accused of “Terrorist Propaganda”

by Ayla Jean Yackley February 18, 2021February 18, 2021

“The government views us as political because we believe that the almost 20 million Kurds living in Turkey have the right to experience theater in their own language,” said actor Cihad Ekinci.

Posted inNews

A Handbook for Artists Facing Persecution

Avatar photo by Valentina Di Liscia January 29, 2021February 8, 2021

PEN America has released a critical guide for artists at risk, created with input from persecuted creators around the world.

Posted inNews

Art and Creative Acts That Were Censored in 2020

Avatar photo by Dorian Batycka January 1, 2021December 31, 2020

Human rights experts have expressed distress that the pandemic has increased attacks against free speech, LBGTQ+ rights, and peaceful assembly.

Posted inNews

Protesting Chinese Censorship Around COVID-19, Artist Takes Vow of Silence

Avatar photo by Valentina Di Liscia July 22, 2020November 5, 2020

For his #shutupfor30days project, artist and activist Brother Nut used metal clasps, duct tape, and other props to physically seal his mouth during the entire month of June.

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