Censorship
Censorshiparchive
Here we go again: books of Mapplethorpe photographs banned from sale at the V&A and Harrods
The episode had overtones of "An American were-wolf in London"
Censorshiparchive
As the catalogue comes to Britain, James Hall slates “The Play of the Unmentionable”, the anti-censorship installation created by Joseph Kosuth at the Brooklyn Museum
Kosuth "keeps the ball rolling while not rocking the boat”
Censorshiparchive
Jane Kallir mounts timely investigation into censorship of modern art
Exhibition gives historical context to denunciation of Mapplethorpe and Serrano
Columbia Universityarchive
An art historian stands accused of criminal libel; a conviction would affect the future freedom of critics
Professor James Beck of Columbia University is standing trial in Italy