Censorship

Outrage at Smithsonian self-censorship over Wojnarowicz work

Controversy follows decision to remove David Wojnarowicz video loaned by National Portrait Gallery

Shanghaiarchive

“Art spies” said to be on look out for non-approved events

Conflict between government and arts organisers at Shanghai World Expo

Mark Stephens on art censorship at the Tate: obscenity, indecency, and freedom of speech

Richard Prince's Spiritual America has been the subject of police interference, and the question of unclothed children in art is once again at the forefront

Artists and academics fight animal rights activists in US Supreme Court

Anti-censorship group believes law against images of cruelty limits artistic freedoms

Swedenarchive

Legal vetting of graduation shows raises spectre of censorship in Sweden

Swedish students’ work comes under scrutiny after a series of controversies

Cooper Union accused of censorship as Stalin banner is removed

The controversial image was removed after protests from local community, many of whom were Ukrainian

Censorshiparchive

Terrorism exhibition cancelled at Chelsea Art Museum

Museum curator resigns over claims of censorship

Censorshiparchive

Kulik images impounded as ‘pornography’ at Fiac

Russian gallery directors handcuffed by police, but case dropped

“Every society has its taboos”: Interview with Farhad Moshiri

The Middle Eastern contemporary artist discusses the state of the art market, his commercial success, and what it’s like to work in Iran

Copenhagenarchive

Danish museum to buy Muhammad cartoons which sparked global riots

The Royal Library is in talks to purchase the works; another Danish museum wants to put them on display

Malaysiaarchive

Artists in Malaysia facing censorship, ethnic separation and Islamicisation

But it is a lively scene that looks to the international art world

Whitechapel Gallery accused of “self-censorship”

Lenders to a Hans Bellmer exhibition say works were withdrawn from display for fear of causing offence

A solution found to Tehran's controversial Bacon triptych

Getting minds out of the gutter - despite Bacon's wishes to be there himself

Art in the age of global terrorism: censorship at the Venice Biennale

The story of Gregor Schneider’s installation for St Mark’s Square

Russiaarchive

Russian Court sanctions Church censorship

Director and curator charged with “incitement of national, racial, or religious enmity”

Censorshiparchive

Hindu mobs ransack library and attack Sanscrit scholar

An Oxford University Press book on a nationalist hero has been withdrawn from the Indian market

May 1998archive

Supreme Court justices consider whether decency test for NEA grants is unconstitutional

Instead of raising hopes that they might deal a decisive slap in the face to Congressional limits on artistic expression, the justices gave no clear indication of where they were heading in the case

Interviewarchive

Interview with Mark Stephens on censorship: a lawyer’s view

The co-founder of Stephens Innocent law firm discusses the limits of art

The arguments for and against Unidroit

Our second Art Law Supplement examines cultural property export regulations; the legal loopholes in their international enforcement and the latest proposed solution: the controversial 1995 Unidroit Convention on Stolen and Illegally Exported Cultural Objects. We also deal with art and artists on the edge of society, in articles on censorship and the creations of the mentally ill

Copyrightarchive

Copyright and censorship in Chapmanworld: how far can they go?

Despite the dilemmas posed by their work, Jake and Dinos Chapman's first major exhibition in a public gallery is opening in London