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Those who've been following the news out of Russia know that three members of feminist punk collective Pussy Riot are currently on trial for rushing the altar and playing an anti-Putin song in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior. The women called their song, which is titled "Virgin Mary, Chase Putin
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Proving that art does still have the power to be controversial, and that the New York Police Department pretty much does whatever it wants, the NYPD dispatched two officers on Tuesday to paint over a mural that it didn't like.
Opinion
Last month the Jewish Museum removed San Francisco artist Marc Adelman's controversial photo installation "Stelen (Columns)" (2007–11) from its exhibition Composed: Identity, Politics, Sex. Adelman's piece, which is part of the Jewish Museum's collection, consists of 150 profile pictures found on th
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In the exhibition Canceled: Alternative Manifestations and Productive Failures at the Center for Book Arts, the documents, language and narrative of controversy, censorship and failure become a new form of work to consider.
Books
During last night's Arthur Miller Freedom to Write event, writer Salman Rushie talked about the fact that censorship exists to change the subject. When it is introduced in the realm of art, it becomes the subject; the attack onto the work becomes the work. As Rushdie said, “Assumptions of guilt repl
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KUWAIT CITY, Kuwait — On the evening of March 5, contemporary Kuwaiti artist Shurooq Amin opened her anticipated solo exhibition in Kuwait’s Al M. Gallery. A large crowd of people was in attendance, and many pieces were sold immediately after the doors opened at 8 pm. But by 10 pm local police order
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"The controls are very strong," Ai told Reuters by telephone. "They (the government) are very insecure, they are not ready for any kind of change."
Books
When I read Witold Gombrowicz’s Ferdydurke in the late 1980s the Soviet empire was beginning to totter and crack. An English version of the book, published in 1961 in the UK, had been re-issued in 1986 as part of Penguin’s Writers from the Other Europe series, edited by Philip Roth. The project aime
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LOS ANGELES — Last year, Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi was sentenced to six years in prison for "propaganda against the state." In addition to the prison sentence, he was banned from making films for twenty years. But his latest film is shot entirely on iPhones.
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Yesterday, Twitter announced that it will start censoring tweets in certain countries as a concession to governments as the service expands globally. Some, including Ai Weiwei, are not happy.
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We were notified this morning via Twitter that the Istanbul Modern has released the following statement.
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There are claims of censorship in Istanbul as eight artists and an artist collective have made a joint decision to withdraw from the Istanbul Modern museum's Reality and Dream exhibition. The debate has since snowballed into a discussion about the role of contemporary art in Turkey and the problems