censorship
Two conferences in two European cities. Two attempted bans (though only one successful). Two different responses from politicians and the media. All of which tells us something about the state of free speech today. Last Tuesday, Emir Kir, a mayor in Brussels, created international headlines when he tried to ban a National Conservative conference in […]
She told CNN that her biology teacher in her home village in the southern Indian state of Kerala had spoken to the class about sexual intercourse just once and she didn’t recall learning much from that. So, when she found herself uncomfortable with her sexual encounters with her husband, she struggled to explain why or […]
The American Library Association (ALA) recently reported there have been 695 attempts to censor library materials and services, as well as documented challenges to 1,915 unique titles over a seven-month period in 2023. According to the ALA report, “The majority of the targeted books were ‘written by or about a person of color or a […]
Howard University’s annual International Black Writers Festival hosted African-American authors who have faced bans on their books about the history of Black America and racism to speak about the opposition to their writings. Authors Mikki Kendall and Ibram X. Kendi joined Howard professors Nikole Hannah-Jones and Ta-Nehisi Coates to discuss why books that tell the […]
Arts and entertainment | UW Notebook May 5, 2023 This week, attend the lecture on censorship and modern Chinese literature, learn ways to assist community building in the face of long-haul trans survival, join in on the Indigenous writing and storytelling series and more. May 8, 5:00 – 8:00 PM |
The following excerpt is from the book Censored Art Today by Gareth Harris, published earlier this year by Lund Humphries. The saga of the Philip Guston exhibition, “Philip Guston Now,” that was postponed in late 2020 demonstrates how museums now suffer from an identity crisis, torn between the demands of an engaged activist audience […]
This letter was sent on July 18, 2022 from the artists, ruangrupa, and the artistic team of documenta fifteen to the members of the documenta supervisory board. With surprise we discovered that it became public in the German media, which quoted only selective parts of it, producing a misinterpretation. Here is the letter in full. […]
These voices, charged with raw frustration, agony and desperation, are among the montage of audio recordings featured in “Voices of April,” a video documenting the harsh impact of Shanghai’s nearly month-long lockdown.The city-wide lockdown, among the strictest the country has seen, has plunged the once-bustling international financial hub . . .
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