The artist said the National Portrait Gallery was considering removing the painting after Trump issued anti-trans mandates for federally funded museums.
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High School Teacher Reprimanded for Showing Jewish Dissent Poster
Evanston teacher Andrew Ginsberg, who is Jewish, was asked to take down a print referencing anti-war Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel’s 1971 essay.
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Senate Republican Deploys Law Used in McCarthy Era Against Pro-Palestine Nonprofit
The NYC arts and advocacy organization The People’s Forum says claims of ties to the Chinese Communist Party constitute a “classic right-wing strategy” to undermine dissent.
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Texas Schools Ban Lesson Over Exposed Nipple on Virginia Flag
“Nudity on a state flag is an absurd justification to censor a history lesson,” ACLU Staff Attorney Chloe Kempf told Hyperallergic.
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Republican-Led Bill Would Penalize Texas Museums for “Obscene” Art
The proposed legislation comes after police seized photographs by Sally Mann from the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth.
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RISD Shuts Down Students’ Pro-Palestine Art Show
The school said it would relocate the exhibition, which was on view in a public cafe, to a private building in order to “uphold safety.”
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Australian University Scraps Show Featuring Work of Lebanese-Born Artist
Khaled Sabsabi was dropped from representing the Australian pavilion at the Venice Biennale last month on the basis of allegations about his work.
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Mexican Artist Decries “Censorship” of Queer Nun and Priest Portraits
Fabián Cháirez’s exhibition in Mexico City was suspended on a judge’s orders after the Association of Christian Lawyers filed a legal complaint.
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Is Female Anatomy Too “Controversial” for the American Quilter’s Society?
The organization is also accused of trying to remove an abstract quilt referencing abortion access from a traveling exhibition, according to the artists.
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How Will Meta’s New Content Policy Affect Artists?
Artists have long faced censorship on the company’s platforms, but new guidelines limiting content moderation are far from a boon to free speech.
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Most Museum Directors Have Faced Pressure to Censor Art, Survey Finds
Works critical of Christianity and works by Palestinian artists were among those that would “definitely” elicit complaints, survey respondents said.
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Nan Goldin Speaks Out on Censorship of Berlin Show
“I felt disavowed by the museum,” the artist said of the Neue Nationalgalerie in an interview published for the first time in English in Hyperallergic.