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Artist: Boyd Rice

Year: 2018

Date of Action: September 5, 2018

Region: North America

Location: New York, NY USA

Subject: Political/Economic/Social Opinion

Medium: Mixed Media, Painting

Confronting Bodies: Invisible Dole

Description of Artwork: Objections were made before any indication of the exhibition's content had been made public.

The Incident: In September 2018, Greenspon Gallery’s announcement of a two-person exhibition set to feature artists Darja Bajagić and Boyd Rice stirred up a firestorm of controversy within the New York art world. It began with a series of disapproving and rejective emails exchanged among subscribers of a private Listserv known as the Invisible Dole, who were outraged that Boyd Rice had been given a platform to show his work. Created and administered by artists Josh Kline and Anicka Yi, and predominantly comprised of other 47 Canal affiliates, the digital forum propagated accusations that the artists were pedaling a clear white supremacist agenda.

After excerpts of the Dole’s correspondence were, at first discreetly, shared among a certain network of art-world players, they were soon leaked to a wider public and posted online. While the messages—which ranged in content from short, exclamatory remarks of distaste to more directly discernible agendas to shut down the show—were not entirely surprising, their collective conspiratorial nature was exposed in stark contradiction with the values they seemed to feel themselves upholding

Results of Incident: Gallery owner Amy Greenspon ultimately gave in to the pressures applied by the opposition and chose to cancel the exhibition the night before it was scheduled to open.

Source:
• http://www.artnews.com/2018/09/06/greenspon-gallery-cancels-show-artist-boyd-rice-alleged-neo-nazi/,
• http://www.artnews.com/2018/09/06/greenspon-gallery-cancels-show-artist-boyd-rice-alleged-neo-nazi/,
• https://www.artforum.com/news/after-backlash-greenspon-gallery-scraps-show-by-alleged-neo-nazi-boyd-rice-76547,
• https://frieze.com/article/new-york-gallery-pulls-boyd-rice-show-following-neo-nazi-claims,
• https://frieze.com/article/should-gallery-show-art-someone-hateful-politics,
• https://hyperallergic.com/459315/new-york-gallery-cancels-exhibition-featuring-boyd-rice-an-alleged-nazi/,
• http://jerrmagoo.blogspot.com/2018/09/47-canal-statement-deleted-from-their.html,
• http://jerrmagoo.blogspot.com/2018/09/the-witch-hunt-rages-on-here-and-im.html,
• https://www.artsy.net/news/artsy-editorial-greeenspon-gallery-canceled-exhibition-featuring-artist-boyd-rice-alleged-neo-nazi,
• https://news.artnet.com/exhibitions/boyd-rice-greenspon-show-canceled-1346441

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-|description_of_incident=In September 2018, Greenspon Gallery’s announcement of a two-person exhibition set to feature artists Darja Bajagić and Boyd Rice stirred up a firestorm of controversy within the New York art world. It began with a series of disapproving and rejective emails exchanged among subscribers of a private Listserv known as the Invisible Dole, who were outraged that Boyd Rice had been given a platform to show his work. Created and administered by artists Josh Kline and Anicka Yi, and predominantly comprised of other 47 Canal affiliates, the digital forum propagated accusations that the artists were pedaling a loosely veiled white supremacist agenda.
+|description_of_incident=In September 2018, Greenspon Gallery’s announcement of a two-person exhibition set to feature artists Darja Bajagić and Boyd Rice stirred up a firestorm of controversy within the New York art world. It began with a series of disapproving and rejective emails exchanged among subscribers of a private Listserv known as the Invisible Dole, who were outraged that Boyd Rice had been given a platform to show his work. Created and administered by artists Josh Kline and Anicka Yi, and predominantly comprised of other 47 Canal affiliates, the digital forum propagated accusations that the artists were pedaling a clear white supremacist agenda.
-|description_of_result=Gallery owner Amy Greenspon ultimately gave in to the pressures applied by the aforementioned network of art world players and chose to cancel the exhibition the night before it was scheduled to open.
+After excerpts of the Dole’s correspondence were, at first discreetly, shared among a certain network of art-world players, they were soon leaked to a wider public and posted online. While the messages—which ranged in content from short, exclamatory remarks of distaste to more directly discernible agendas to shut down the show—were not entirely surprising, their collective conspiratorial nature was exposed in stark contradiction with the values they seemed to feel themselves upholding
+|description_of_result=Gallery owner Amy Greenspon ultimately gave in to the pressures applied by the opposition and chose to cancel the exhibition the night before it was scheduled to open.
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 |source=http://www.artnews.com/2018/09/06/greenspon-gallery-cancels-show-artist-boyd-rice-alleged-neo-nazi/, http://www.artnews.com/2018/09/06/greenspon-gallery-cancels-show-artist-boyd-rice-alleged-neo-nazi/, https://www.artforum.com/news/after-backlash-greenspon-gallery-scraps-show-by-alleged-neo-nazi-boyd-rice-76547, https://frieze.com/article/new-york-gallery-pulls-boyd-rice-show-following-neo-nazi-claims, https://frieze.com/article/should-gallery-show-art-someone-hateful-politics, https://hyperallergic.com/459315/new-york-gallery-cancels-exhibition-featuring-boyd-rice-an-alleged-nazi/, http://jerrmagoo.blogspot.com/2018/09/47-canal-statement-deleted-from-their.html, http://jerrmagoo.blogspot.com/2018/09/the-witch-hunt-rages-on-here-and-im.html, https://www.artsy.net/news/artsy-editorial-greeenspon-gallery-canceled-exhibition-featuring-artist-boyd-rice-alleged-neo-nazi, https://news.artnet.com/exhibitions/boyd-rice-greenspon-show-canceled-1346441
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