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Artist: Beau Stanton

Year: 2018

Date of Action: Dec 2018-2019

Region: North America

Location: Los Angeles, CA

Subject: Political/Economic/Social Opinion

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Confronting Bodies: Wilshire Community Coalition

Description of Artwork: This mural was created as part of an arts initiative at the school, which involved workshops and seminars with students and is intended as an homage to actress Ava Gardner. The surrounding rays are a common device found in many of artist Beau Stanton's murals. Some community members were offended by the rays, which they associate with the Japanese imperialist flag, and have called for the erasure of the entire mural.

The Incident: The superintendent of a Los Angeles school district has unilaterally decided to remove a mural on display on the exterior wall of RFK Community Schools’ theater after some members of the surrounding community complained that visual elements of the mural resembled the Rising Sun flag of Imperialist Japan.

Results of Incident: As of June 2019, artist Beau Stanton agree to revise the mural in order to resolve this dispute which nearly resulted in political censorship. Stanton was alloted $20,000 from the district to amend the mural.

Source:
• https://knx1070.radio.com/blogs/group-demanding-mural-koreatown-go-claiming-it-depicts-japanese-imperial-flag,
• https://www.latimes.com/local/education/la-me-edu-lausd-ava-gardner-mural-20181211-story.html,
• https://www.lataco.com/offensive-koreatown-ava-gardner-mural-will-be-painted-over/,
• https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-et-cm-koreatown-mural-censorship-20181212-story.html,
• https://www.latimes.com/local/education/la-me-edu-controversial-ava-gardner-mural-20181213-story.html,
• https://patch.com/california/los-angeles/lausd-boxed-corner-over-controversial-mural,
• http://koreanamericanheritage.libsyn.com/kahp-commentary-save-the-mural,
• https://news.artnet.com/art-world/shepard-fairey-defends-beau-stanton-mural-1423192,
• https://patch.com/california/los-angeles/lausd-reverses-course-destruction-controversial-mural,
• http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/culture/2019/06/145_269959.html

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+|date_of_action=Dec 2018-2019
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+|location=Los Angeles, CA
-'''Artist:''' Laura Ferguson
+|description_of_content=This mural was created as part of an arts initiative at the school, which involved workshops and seminars with students and is intended as an homage to actress Ava Gardner. The surrounding rays are a common device found in many of artist Beau Stanton's murals. Some community members were offended by the rays, which they associate with the Japanese imperialist flag, and have called for the erasure of the entire mural.
+|description_of_incident=The superintendent of a Los Angeles school district has unilaterally decided to remove a mural on display on the exterior wall of RFK Community Schools’ theater after some members of the surrounding community complained that visual elements of the mural resembled the Rising Sun flag of Imperialist Japan.
-'''Confronting Bodies:''' The U.S. Senate Rules Committee
+|description_of_result=As of June 2019, artist Beau Stanton agree to revise the mural in order to resolve this dispute which nearly resulted in political censorship. Stanton was alloted $20,000 from the district to amend the mural.
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-'''Dates of Action:''' April 2001
+|source=https://knx1070.radio.com/blogs/group-demanding-mural-koreatown-go-claiming-it-depicts-japanese-imperial-flag, https://www.latimes.com/local/education/la-me-edu-lausd-ava-gardner-mural-20181211-story.html, https://www.lataco.com/offensive-koreatown-ava-gardner-mural-will-be-painted-over/, https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-et-cm-koreatown-mural-censorship-20181212-story.html, https://www.latimes.com/local/education/la-me-edu-controversial-ava-gardner-mural-20181213-story.html, https://patch.com/california/los-angeles/lausd-boxed-corner-over-controversial-mural, http://koreanamericanheritage.libsyn.com/kahp-commentary-save-the-mural, https://news.artnet.com/art-world/shepard-fairey-defends-beau-stanton-mural-1423192, https://patch.com/california/los-angeles/lausd-reverses-course-destruction-controversial-mural, http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/culture/2019/06/145_269959.html
+}}
-'''Location:''' ''eMotion Pictures: An Exhibition of Orthopaedics in Art'' Exhibition, Rotunda of Russell Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C., The United States of America
+See also: https://www.instagram.com/p/BrS5jCAgIb5/?utm_source=ig_twitter_share&igshid=1dbnt7ovjl9wy, https://www.instagram.com/p/BrQXlfNANrE/?utm_source=ig_twitter_share&igshid=1kja53k28o9cw, https://hyperallergic.com/476673/after-shepard-fairey-halts-whitewashing-of-offensive-la-mural-art-community-responds/, https://www.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ed-rising-sunburst-ava-20181218-story.html, https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-et-cm-koreatown-mural-censorship-20181219-story.html, https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/20/national/removal-la-mural-conjures-images-japans-wartime-army-put-hold/#.XD5EI1xKgdU, https://www.latimes.com/opinion/readersreact/la-ol-le-ava-gardner-mural-koreatown-20181221-story.html, https://spectrumnews1.com/ca/la-west/inside-the-issues/2018/12/26/shepard-fairey--artist-behind-iconic-obama--hope--poster-talks-political-art-, https://www.theartnewspaper.com/feature/los-angeles-wears-its-art-on-its-sleeve, https://www.change.org/p/los-angles-unified-school-district-say-no-to-censorship-save-mural-at-los-angeles-public-school, https://ncac.org/news/ncac-opposes-removal-of-mural-at-los-angeles-school, https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-et-cm-rfk-mural-koreatown-gyopo-20190318-story.html, https://www.artforum.com/news/mural-in-los-angeles-s-koreatown-reignites-debate-over-censorship-japanese-colonialism-78952, https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-edu-koreatown-school-mural-dispute-20190529-story.html
-'''Description of Artwork:''' Ferguson's paintings depict nude female bodies with their skeletal systems showing through. The artist's work is an attempt to deal with her own disability: scoliosis, a curvature of the spine. Ferguson draws her own body's skeletal system (based on X rays, MRIs and 3D scans) on paper previously treated with oil paints and bronze powders. None of the censored paintings contained full frontal nudity.
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-'''The Incident:''' The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons organized a large-scale traveling exhibition, which included works by artists with orthopaedic conditions. A selection of works was to be displayed in the rotunda of the Senate Office Building in D.C. A number of Ferguson's paintings, which had also been featured on the exhibition's publicity materials, were among those selected. The Senate Rules Committee rejected Ferguson's art claiming, initially and officially, that there wasn't enough space. Eventually, Tamara Somerville, staff director for Senate Rules Committee Chairman Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) admitted that Ferguson's paintings were censored because they featured nudity.
-'''Results of Incident:''' The AAOS removed the exhibit from the Senate in its entirety and found an alternative venue for it: Southwest Washington's Millennium Arts Center.
-'''Source:''' NCAC. Additional information: Washington Post, Laura Ferguson Web Site (http://www.etaoin.com/fer0.htm)
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