News
Far-Right Criticism Shuts Down Brazil's Largest Ever Queer Art Exhibition
On Sunday, Santander Cultural unilaterally shut down Queermuseum after conservative critics accused it of promoting blasphemy and pedophilia.
Censorship
Opinion
Censorship, Not the Painting, Must Go: On Dana Schutz’s Image of Emmett Till
Presuming that calls for censorship and destruction constitute a legitimate response to perceived injustice leads us down a very dark path.
In Brief
Turkish Publisher Shuts Down Magazine for Printing Moses Cartoon
After the office of President Erdoğan condemned the cartoon, the publisher of Gırgır closed the magazine and threatened to file criminal complaints against staffers.
In Brief
US Congressman Sues Architect of the Capitol for Removing Student's Painting
Representative William Lacy Clay claims the removal of a painting by one of his constituents was an act of censorship that violates the 1st Amendment.
News
Jerusalem Moves to Evict Art Gallery for Hosting Event About Occupied Territories
Barbur Gallery held an event with the left-wing NGO Breaking the Silence, and now the municipality of Jerusalem is trying to kick it out of its space.
Art
Despite Censorship Row, a Show Connecting Immigrant Rights and Police Brutality Goes On
The censorship of a work now slated to be reinstated threatened to undo a powerful exhibition of social justice art by artists from the southwestern US.
News
Violations of Artists' Rights More Than Doubled in 2016, Report Finds
Art Under Threat, an annual report released by Freemuse, charts incidents of censorship, violence, and persecution against artists around the world.
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News
Facebook and Instagram Censor Anti-Trump Posters [UPDATED]
The social media companies have removed images of posters made by the publisher Badlands Unlimited that parody Westboro Baptist Church protest signs.
Art
How Art and Law Can Work Together Beyond the Marketplace
On the one hand, the role of the art lawyer has been to lubricate the wheels of commerce. But this approach runs the risk of missing the most illuminating contributions to art law itself.
Opinion
A Painting Censored by GOP Lawmakers Deserves to Be Seen
A high school senior's painting of a protest scene has become the subject of a controversy since it was hung (and removed, and re-hung, and re-removed, and re-re-hung) at the US Capitol, but nobody is looking at it closely enough.
Art
15 Artists, Shows, and Works Censored in 2016
Here's a look at some of this year’s acts of art censorship.
News
Artist Kader Attia Files Plagiarism Lawsuit over French Rap Video
YouTube took down the music video for a song by the French rappers Dosseh and Nekfeu after Attia filed a lawsuit claiming it plagiarizes one of his works.