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British Politician Wants to Criminalize Waving the Palestinian Flag
Parliament member Suella Braverman is also concerned about the protest chant “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.”
Censorship
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Barcelona Museum Gives Censored Art a Permanent Home
The new Museu de l’Art Prohibit will house a collection of more than 200 artworks that have been removed, banned, or denounced.
News
Did China Censor a Photo of Two Women Athletes Embracing?
The image of two runners was reportedly removed online because it included numbers related to the Tiananmen Square massacre.
Art
Incarcerated Artists and Authors Shed Light on Prison Censorship
The exhibition Return To Sender, co-organized by Mariame Kaba with PEN America, explores the prison industrial complex’s mechanisms of silencing.
News
Florida School Accused of Censoring Show About Police Violence — And Lying About It
Daytona State College abruptly withdrew a show of Jon Henry’s photographs depicting Black mothers, citing HVAC issues. Others say that wasn’t the real reason.
News
Artists Sound the Alarm on Censorship in Spain
The suppression of films, plays, and other content expressing LGBTQ+ and feminist views in recent months has begun to raise the ghosts of Spain’s fascist past.
News
Arizona City to Restore Exhibition Series After Censorship Backlash
But it is unclear whether the Mesa Arts Center’s shows will include the Shepard Fairey anti-police artwork that the City of Mesa had asked to withdraw.
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Artists Decry “Censorship” of Shepard Fairey Anti-Police Artwork
The city of Mesa canceled a series of shows of political street art just weeks after the museum refused to withdraw Fairey’s work depicting a police officer in riot gear.
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Indigenous Artist’s "Defund the Police" Banner Removed from Oregon Exhibition
Demian DinéYazhi’ says the Chehalem Cultural Center has "chosen to stand on the side of conservative extremism and fear.”
Opinion
How a Bill to Protect Children Online Threatens Artists
Decried by human and digital rights groups, the EARN IT Act threatens to undermine privacy and freedom of expression online.
News
Portugal Hospital Removes Artwork About Its Slavery Ties
Dori Nigro and Paulo Pinto’s work discusses the Centro Hospitalar Conde de Ferreira, funded in part by the trafficking of enslaved people from Angola to Brazil.
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Prison Abolition Art in Florida Removed Under University Pressure
The University of Florida’s off-campus art gallery was vandalized after the school asked its curator to take down banners criticizing the local police department.