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Incarcerated Artists and Authors Shed Light on Prison Censorship

Avatar photo by Maya Pontone September 20, 2023September 20, 2023

The exhibition Return To Sender, co-organized by Mariame Kaba with PEN America, explores the prison industrial complex’s mechanisms of silencing.

Posted inNews

Florida School Accused of Censoring Show About Police Violence — And Lying About It

Avatar photo by Elaine Velie August 21, 2023August 21, 2023

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.

Posted inNews

Artists Sound the Alarm on Censorship in Spain

Avatar photo by Emma Shapiro August 20, 2023August 18, 2023

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.

Posted inNews

Arizona City to Restore Exhibition Series After Censorship Backlash

Avatar photo by Maya Pontone August 17, 2023August 17, 2023

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

Avatar photo by Erin Joyce August 11, 2023August 16, 2023

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

by Rhea Nayyar August 7, 2023August 15, 2023

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

Avatar photo by Emma Shapiro July 12, 2023July 12, 2023

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

by Sage Behr June 9, 2023June 9, 2023

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

Avatar photo by Carolina Drake April 18, 2023April 18, 2023

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?

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.

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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.

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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.

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