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"Art of Democracy" was scheduled to be put on display at the gallery from October 20th through November 29. On election week, however, an exhibition on pottery was displayed in its place. Carol Brighton, the gallery curator, and the city’s Civic Arts Coordinator Mary Ann Merker claim that the intent was not to censor the arts, but merely a curatorial choice, and explained that "it was not uncommon for public agencies to refrain from showing work which depicted violence or nudity." Merker defended the choice on grounds that the display windows were across the street from a school. +
G
"Banned, Challenged as required reading in Hudson Falls, N.Y. schools (1994). Challenged as a ninth-grade summer reading option in Prince William County, Va. (1988) because the book was "rife with profanity and explicit sex." +
C
"Coonskin was screened for the first time at the Museum of Modern Art, and a controversy exploded. While many members of that audience responded enthusiastically, several leaders of the Harlem chapter of the Congress for Racial Equality (CORE) vehemently attacked the film during a question‐and‐answer session with Bakshi."
"The key question seems to be whether the film is racist." +
D
"Down These Mean Streets banned by community board in Queens and books removed from library in Long Island." +
C
"During the summer of 2016, the University's Diversity Leadership Team (DLT), who expressed concern that the depiction of First Nations people would reinforce racial stereotypes, brought this issue to the attention of University Chancellor Bob Meyer who, after a series of discussions with the DLT, ruled in their favor. Because of the risk of ""having a harmful effect on our students and other viewers,"" the paintings will not appear in the new Harvey Hall and will be placed into storage, Chancellor Meyer announced. Given the sensitive subject matter of the paintings, he continued, if they are to be displayed, it must be in ""a controlled gallery space"" that provides ""context"" for a viewer. And “a controlled gallery space” just does not exist at the University, so the paintings will most likely just remain out of view.
The Chancellor at the University of Wisconsin-Stout announced two of three historic paintings depicting interactions between white traders and First Nations people were to be removed from public view because of their potentially ""harmful effect"" on students and other viewers." +
T
"In 1973, the city attorney of Phoenix banned the film as obscene (because of the skinny-dipping scene) and it took a federal court to declare it safe for viewing." +
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"Intensely Alice" was challenged by the principal for its overt sexual themes. School administrators considered removing the book from the school library. +
T
"Memphians couldn't see Marlon Brando in the 1954 classic The Wild One because Binford considered it rowdy, unlawful, and raw." +
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"Ode to the Sea," an art exhibition at John Jay College in New York provoked an abrupt change to government policy regarding art created by detainees held at Guantanamo Bay. The Pentagon and Department of Defense declared that all art created by detainees will henceforth become the property of the US government and may no longer be removed from the prison, even upon a detainee’s clearance and release. It was suggested that the art will be destroyed. +
F
"Removed from Missouri local public library - A student assigned to read the book in English class at the University of Utah objected to its content and was offered an alternate assignment (school’s religious accommodation policy). Student alerted Salt Lake City area group “No More Pornography”. Group started an online petition and issued a press release calling for the university to remove the book from its curriculum" +
D
"The banning of a book about life In Spanish Harlem persists as a source of controversy in a middle‐class area of Queens that is very much unlike Spanish Harlem.
Whether or not to give junior high school pupils in Community School District 25 access to the book, “Down These Mean Streets” by Piri Thomas, the son of Puerto Rican immigrants, is a question that continues to split the school board and some segments of the community, which takes in portions of Flushing, Whitestone and College Point.
The book, which describes In the language of the streets the survival‐level life of a young boy growing up in East Harlem, was banned last month by a 5 to 3 vote of the decentralized board." - NY Times
The book was also removed from a school library in Long Island in 1981. +
W
"Wolf" has been completely banned in Malaysia and Nepal. Sources within Malaysia's government film office said that the distributor of the film realized upon screening it that it would face huge problems with the censorship board because of its profanity, nudity and sex. The film had also had been set for release in Nepal, but the censorship board there nixed those plans. +
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''A Long Way Gone'' contains exactly one utterance of the word “fuck.” After Richmond high school students were assigned to read ''A Long Way Gone'', the Richmond School Board agreed that high school English teacher Katie Rold must blacken out the word "fuck" in every copy of the book. +
B
''Black Boy'' was immediately demonized as being anti-American, anti-Semitic, and anti-Christian, as well as for its sexual content and unrelenting portrayal of race relations. In September 1975, several board members of the Island Trees Union Free School District attended a conference sponsored by Parents of New York United. At the conference, the school board members obtained materials listing objectionable books found in many school libraries. Taking this material to heart, in early 1976 the board removed several books from Island Trees High School and Island Trees Memorial Junior High School, including ''Black Boy'' by Richard Wright. +
E
''Eleanor & Park'' was removed from a tenth-grade English curriculum following complaints. A parent of a student at Vinton County High School posted an out-of-context image of a passage from the book containing “foul language” on social media and issued a formal complaint about the book to the school. The school administration responded by cancelling English lessons that used the book, replacing it with a different novel. +
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''Golgota Picnic'' was scheduled to be performed at the Poznań Malta Festival on June 26th and 27th. The festival organizers canceled the performance because of threats of violent protest and riots from religious and far-right groups.
On July 2, 2014, Conservative Law and Justice (PiS) Member's of Parliament, Małgorzata Sadurska and Andrzej Jaworski, filed a motion with the prosecutor's office ensuring that the play would not be performed anywhere in Poland. The motion claimed that the play "offends religious sentiment" and describes the play as “pseudo-art, full of scenes of obscenity, profanity and pornography."
MP's, Sadurska and Jaworski, claim that the staging of the play contravenes Article 196 of the Criminal Code, which states that, "anyone who offends the religious feelings of other people [can be] subject to a fine, restriction of liberty or imprisonment for up to two years." +
D
''The New York Daily News'' has run multiple articles lambasting the topless performance artists, and an August 16, 2015 cover with the title "Bust This Flesh Pit: Growing Surge of Topless Hustlers Defiles City." Criticism has frequently claimed that children in the public space should not be exposed to topless women.
''The New York Times'' quoted NYPD Commissioner William Bratton as disapproving of the practice, but unable find a legal basis for removing them:
"'It drives me crazy when at Times Square you see the naked people there covered in body paint as an expression of art,'" Mr. Bratton said in a recent interview with City & State magazine on the subject of questionable street behavior. Yet, he added: 'We’ve researched that top to bottom and we cannot find any law that allows us to interfere with that freedom of expression reflected through art form.'" +
T
''The Satanic Verses'' controversy, also known as the Rushdie Affair, was the vehement and violent reaction of Muslims to Salman Rushdie's novel. The protests against the book began with its title. The title references a legend of the Prophet Mohammad when verses were supposedly spoken to him as part of the Qur'an and then withdrawn as it was believed that the devil had sent them to deceive him into thinking they had come from God. People also took issue with the use of the name Mahound, which was said to be a derogatory term for Muhammad which was used by the English during the Crusades. Muslims were also disturbed by the fact that Abraham was called a "bastard" for casting Hagar and Ishmael in the desert. The book was thought to be offensive, sacrilegious and blasphemous.
In 1989, the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini of Iran issued a fatwa, ordering Muslims to kill Rushdie or other individuals related in the publishing of the controversial novel. There were many attempted and achieved killings as well as violent and destructive bombings which occurred as a result of the fatwa. +
W
''Witnesses: Against Our Vanishing'' included an extremely controversial essay written by David Wojnarowicz, called "Post Cards from America: X-Rays from Hell." The essay harshly criticized right-wing policy-makers who discouraged increased education of safe sex practices. He believed that an increase in sex education would decrease the threat of AIDS, and believed that by preventing people from receiving proper teaching regarding safe sex, these right-wing policy makers were perpetuating the grave issue of the AIDS crisis. +
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13 copies of the book were in place in San Bernardino county when one of them was taken out by Matt Jones, a 16-year-old boy. When Jones told his mother, Cynthia Jones, about the erotic art section of the book, she wrote a letter to the county library system asking that the book be removed. A story was featured about the incident in local newspapers the Desert Dispatch and the Daily Press, and the next day San Bernardino District Supervisor Bill Postmus ordered that the book be removed from all branches of the county's library system. +