Test 2018 posts
The gallery celebrated its 29th year on September 4 with an exhibition supporting Alam, who has been detained by police in Dhaka for over a month after voicing his opposition of the Bangladeshi government.
Test 2018 posts
Criticism from far-right groups led Queermuseum to shut down and sparked a counter-movement that relaunched the exhibit.
Test 2018 posts
A Cuban decree seeks to censor artists to an unprecedented level, essentially regulating any and all artistic and cultural activity in the country.
Test 2018 posts
After speaking on AlJazeera, Shahidul Alam was arrested under section 57 of the International Communication and Technology Act for reputedly spreading anti-government propaganda.
Test 2018 posts
Activists in Russia are protesting the recent order by Russian authorities to destroy a digital print by the art collective Rodina.
Test 2018 posts
The poem, titled “Resist, my people, resist them,” landed the poet in trouble with Israeli authorities.
Test 2018 posts
Twelve artists who created murals at the behest of nonprofit Paint Memphis, Inc. are suing the city for buffing five of the murals and threatening to erase three more.
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The work features 24 photo portraits of people who have recently been imprisoned in Spain.
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From a show of queer art shut down in Brazil to a painting removed from an art fair in the United Arab Emirates, cultural censorship was rampant this year.
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A petition calling on the Met to remove a painting by Balthus from its walls for its troublingly sexualized depiction of a young girl has gained over 8,000 signatures.
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The curator of an exhibition on queer art, which was subsequently shut down, is being investigated by the senate for harming children with art.
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On Sunday, Santander Cultural unilaterally shut down Queermuseum after conservative critics accused it of promoting blasphemy and pedophilia.