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The 11th Beijing Independent Film Festival was not held last weekend as planned. The modest but increasingly vital festival, a rare incubator for a burgeoning Chinese independent film scene, was shut down on Saturday, August 23, by government authorities, the Associated Press reported.
In Brief
In an ongoing case, Australian artist Paul Yore is facing child pornography charges following complaints concerning his work in a group show on view last year at Melbourne's Linden Centre of Contemporary Arts.
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The University of Chicago whitewashed a mural created by visiting artists to the school without consulting the artists or the organizer of their visit. The school says the mural was painted over in response to complaints from local residents in the neighborhood where it was painted, but the artists
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Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi continues to make movies. Caged in his perverse, Kafkaesque "larger prison," Panahi faces a 20-year ban by the Iranian government on filmmaking, international travel, and interviews.
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South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley has approved an item in the state's 2014–15 budget that forces two public colleges to spend a combined nearly $70,000 on teaching the US Constitution, Declaration of Independence, and the Federalist papers as punishment for assigning students "gay-themed books," t
Guide
What is it about women's bare nipples that gets social media platforms so riled up? In the past months countless images have been removed from Instagram and Facebook because of their inclusion of female nipples while shirtless men and graphic violence remain uncensored.
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The International New York Times publishing partner in the United Arab Emirates has declined to print the May 20 edition of the paper over a front-page story on labor abuses on the country's Saadiyat Island in Abu Dhabi.
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Ai Weiwei's art star celebrity status sometimes eclipses the political realities of his life, but the Chinese government is always quick with a reminder. The latest controversy: local cultural officials in Shanghai have scrubbed and censored Ai's name and work from an exhibition about the history of
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Turkey has long been known for its relatively liberal political system for the region, but over the past year the country has begun clamping down on free speech. Now, the video artist Ali Kazma, who represented the country at the 2013 Venice Biennale, has published an online protest statement titled
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A building owner in Bilbao, Spain, will remove a large artwork made by artists Mike Bouchet and Paul McCarthy from public display after pressure from the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. The digital print on vinyl banner features inverted images of the Bilbao institution embellished by the artists to look
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Julian Oliver and Danja Vasiliev, two artists participating in Berlin’s Transmediale 2014 (January 29–February 2), had an artwork summarily disabled at the festival last month because the piece uses the same technology as the National Security Agency (NSA) to hijack cell phone information.
Opinion
A new study analyzing 3.9 million English-speaking Facebook users has concluded that 71% of status updates are "self-censored" — that is, modified prior to posting.