Censorship

At Amant, New York, a survey of the artist's work commemorates the verse of poets censured by governments through sculpture and installations

Peter Meijer called the performers ‘special souls’ who needed to be ‘protected’

The closure of part of the 2019 Aichi Triennale reflects a broader climate of aggression, censorship and nationalist revisionism 

Index on Censorship has launched an initiative to help artists navigate draconian limits on free-speech

Social media giant to meet with activists demanding end to artistic censorship

Is censoring art the solution to divisive politics? Art historian Susanne von Falkenhausen doesn’t think so

The artist alleges that the Cities of Love franchise cut his section to avoid upsetting the Chinese government ahead of a planned project in Shanghai 

Bruguera was one of a number of artists protesting the controversial Decree 349 which critics say will censor and limit artistic freedom

An essay by the respected Professor Norman Geras has been flagged by the University of Reading as ‘sensitive’ under UK’s Counter-Terrorism scheme

In further news: MoMA reaches contract agreement with staff; man hospitalized after falling into Anish Kapoor installation

‘It’s ridiculous. It’s Picasso’: social media platform to review nudity policy after blocking Montreal Museum of Fine Arts ads

Belgian museums are protesting the social media platform’s inability to distinguish the Flemish master’s Baroque nudes from pornography

Josephine Meckseper’s paint-spattered flag was the last installment in Creative Time’s ‘Pledges of Allegiance’ series of protest banners

Photographer Dragana Jurisic says her account was deactivated after she uploaded an artwork depicting a partially naked woman

Our culture is terrified of sexually-awakened girls – controlling the way we look at Thérèse Dreaming would erase an interior life

Where the fight against reactionary conservative activism in Brazil stands ahead of the 2018 presidential elections

The problem with Apu, time-travelling with the sari and the Instagrammable moment’s predecessor: what to read this weekend

Recent instances of censorship show an emboldened far right attacking the arts, queer identity and more: artists, curators and writers respond

Artforum co-publisher Knight Landesman accused of sexual misconduct; editor Michelle Kuo resigns; Brazilian artists protest censorship

Hobart’s Museum of Old and New Art announces major expansion plans; Hepworth Wakefield named UK museum of the year