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DC Mayor Clashes With Arts Commission, Changes the Locks on Art Collection

Avatar photo by Zachary Small September 12, 2019September 13, 2019

After announcing that she would create a separate arts organization under her control, Mayor Muriel Bowser changed the locks on the storage area that houses the commission’s prized art collection, preventing staff from accessing it.

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Will Washington DC’s Art Commission Fall Victim to a Fight Between the Mayor and City Council?

Avatar photo by Zachary Small May 22, 2019May 22, 2019

When an ambitious roadmap for transforming Washington DC into an arts mecca was unveiled last month, it should have been a political coup; instead, it may have triggered a political collapse.

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DC Commission Reverses Course After Attempt to Censor Artists

Avatar photo by Zachary Small November 9, 2018

The mayor’s office rescinded the controversial amendment, and grantees have received a letter explaining it as an “over-correction” just moments after the censorship push made national headlines.

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Artists Accuse DC Arts Commission of Censoring Free Speech for Grant Money

Avatar photo by Zachary Small November 8, 2018November 9, 2018

The Commission recently told its grantees that it could terminate any funding interpreted as “lewd, lascivious, vulgar, overtly political, and/or excessively violent.” The ACLU may sue on First Amendment grounds if the language is not repealed.

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