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censorship in art
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At 8 tonight, hundreds of people will gather at the center of Buffalo's gay community in Allentown to honor the brief life of Jamey Rodemeyer, the Williamsville teen driven to suicide by the taunts of his classmates. Earlier in the day, at 2 p.m., the Albright-Knox Art Gallery is set to host an important event, in which a government employee will debate the merits of homophobic censorship with the curator of a groundbreaking exhibition on homosexuality in American art.
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Last November, one of the biggest controversies to hit the art world since the culture wars of the early '90s erupted over an exhibition at the Smithsonian Institution's National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. That show, "Hide/Seek," co-curated by University at Buffalo professor Jonathan Katz and the portrait gallery's David Ward, will be the focus of a debate on museums and censorship slated for 2 p.m. Sunday in the Albright-Knox Art Gallery (1285 Elmwood Ave.). The debate will take on issues that resulted from the National Portrait Gallery's censorship of "Hide/Seek" after complaints from conservative lawmakers over its use of religious iconography. Participants include Katz, who directs UB's doctoral visual studies program, along with Richard Kurin, the Smithsonian's...
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It's just a squash, so there's no need to blush. Photography student Vic Richard, 50, of Columbia was at a grocery store in the fall when he spotted the vegetable. His black-and- white photograph of it has ignited a censorship fight in the art department at Moberly Area Community College.
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In a small strip mall on Second Street sits Ahalenia Studios, a modest storefront gallery that serves as an incubator for some of the city's up-and-coming Native American artists. It's an alternative gallery space where the works of Indian art-world luminaries share wall space with relative unknowns, where the bathroom serves as an adjunct gallery, and where edgy curation rules the day. At two openings this year -- one on macabre "inner demons," another on FBI surveillance in Indian Country -- the parking lot overflowed with visitors. America Meredith, a Cherokee artist who runs the studio, said she deliberately tackles sensitive subjects. That's necessary in Santa Fe, she said, as artists often stymie themselves. "There is a self- censorship here I can't fathom," said Meredith, who rec...
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LEWISTON -- The three art directors for Bates, Bowdoin and Colby colleges Monday released a joint statement criticizing Gov. Paul LePage's decision to remove a controversial mural from the Labor Department building in Augusta last month. They said the removal raises issues of censorship, historical revisionism and artists' rights, and they took the administration to task for offering one anonymous letter as justification for the removal.
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Worried officials from the Smithsonian Institution reviewed all the pieces in an exhibition on homosexuality in American art last year before it opened except for the short film that ended up sparking the most controversy and leading to a national debate about censorship. That was the word Sunday from Richard Kurin, the Smithsonian's undersecretary for history, art and culture.
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In bringing together such a large selection of works by women from across the globe, we hope that current and future viewers will make different connections than we did. [...] despite the fact that our version of the exhibition was organized into four sections, we encourage subsequent venues, viewers, and scholars to emphasize other relationships among the works and to create different associations and connections, of which there are an infinitude.
... expression, as well as fears of censorship, imprisonment, and exile. In 1983, under the Suhar...
