VENICE — The Abounaddara collective has withdrawn from All the World’s Futures, the 2015 Venice Biennale’s central exhibition curated by Okwui Enwezor, claiming that their opening short film, “All the Syria’s Futures,” was “censored” by not being screened on May 5.
Censorship
The Facebook Bug that Many Feared Was Censorship
The episode is a scary reminder of just how much we rely on Facebook and just how little control we have over it.
Malaysian Cartoonist Charged with “Sedition” for Political Tweets
Last Friday, Malaysia officially charged the 52-year-old cartoonist Zunar with nine counts of sedition — a charge that could send him to jail for up to 43 years.
Lima Mayor Orders Murals Destroyed, Outraging Citizens
In the past month, Lima has been shaken by the reminder that street art — even when officially approved — is inherently political.
A Tale of Two Exhibitions and the Politics of Forgetting
BARCELONA — The study of the history of exhibitions allows us to “shuffle the deck of art history,” as Robert Rosenblum wrote in his essay for the 2000 exhibition 1900: Art at the Cross-Roads.
2014 Was a Terrible Year for Artistic Freedom
There have been 237 confirmed violations against artistic freedom around the world in 2014, according to a new report by FreeMuse.
Stop Self-Censoring
It’s been three weeks since two masked gunmen stormed into the offices of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and killed 11 people. In that time there’s been self-censorship — quite a bit of it.
“Je Suis (in Solidarity with but Uncomfortable About) Charlie”
The day after the Charlie Hebdo attack I was in line at a public notary’s office in São Paulo. The local news, playing on a flat-screen TV intended to placate those of us waiting for an official stamp on this or that official document, showed footage of the massacre.
A Response to the ‘Charlie Hebdo’ Attack, from an Arab, Artist, and Frenchman
I was sitting in my office on Wednesday morning when I learned with surprise, stupor, and fear of the horror of the Charlie Hebdo attack.
How Tania Bruguera’s Free Speech Performance Was Mishandled, and Misreported, in Cuba
At 3pm on Tuesday, December 30, Cuban artist Tania Bruguera’s participatory performance “Tatlin’s Whisper #6” was scheduled to take place in the Plaza de la Revolución in Havana.
Artist Tania Bruguera Allegedly Detained in Cuba Over Public Performance [UPDATED]
The artist Tania Bruguera has likely been detained by Cuban authorities who prevented her from staging a performance yesterday in Havana’s Plaza de la Revolución, according to multiple media reports and the artist’s sister.
City Councilmen Cry “Porn” Over Pregnant Nude at MOCA Jacksonville
Jacksonville, Florida, may be stuck in the 19th century, because an image of a reclining, nude woman on view at a local museum has local politicians hot and bothered.