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A public art coordinator for city parks, Jennifer Lantzas, contacted Parks staff with concerns that "the image of the noose could be problematic for the borough" (Ginia Bellafante, NYTimes May 27, 2016). Parks spokesman Sam Biederman said that Bell's project was rejected because the site, near West 68th Street in Riverside Park, "is adjacent to an area regularly programmed with passive recreational activities such as yoga, Pilates and senior movement." Bell was told to remove the noose element or forfeit the opportunity to install the sculpture; the M2M committee did not honor his repeated requests to explain or defend his concept. The sculpture was initially installed on schedule but with an alternative head element. +
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A small museum in Lund was displaying Serrano's photographs when a group of masked vandals, shouting in Swedish "We don't support this" followed by an expletive, ran into the gallery armed with crowbars and axes, and smashed the plexiglass covering the photographs, then proceeded to destroy the photos themselves. +
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A teacher in Marion, Kansas, has requested the book to be removed from the school library due to the talk of drugs. +
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A viewer complained to South Africa's Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) that the suggestion of God's messengers literally falling for a mortal being because of a deodorant was incompatible with his belief as a Christian. +
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A well-intentioned third-grade teacher, Ruth Sherman, gave her students a critically praised book about a black girl with kinky hair. (Ms. Sherman was white; her students were mostly black and hispanic.) The school investigated the teacher, who parents accused of being "racially insensitive." She was removed from the classroom out of fear for her safety. +
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ASU had planned to put "Democracy in Action" up as an exhibit to match the timing of a 2004 presidential debate in Phoenix. After curators saw that most of the political art available for display appeared to be anti-Bush in nature (there was only one anti-Kerry artwork), all of the pieces described above were cut from the display, and artistic work that was deemed pro-Bush but "mediocre" was included. [http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2004-08-19/news/bush-league/] +
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According to Jello Biafra's spoken world album High Priest of Harmful Matter: Tales from the Trial, police officers came to his home in pursuit of "harmful matter". They seized copies of his Frankenchrist album because it contained what they considered an obscene H.R. Giger painting. They charged and tried Jello Biafra for "distributing harmful matter to minors". Jello Biafra said the police officers wanted to arrest H.R. Giger, but after Biafra informed them Giger "was in Switzerland", they realized they could not. +
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According to the museum, the exhibit was canceled because the three Palestinian artists (Bashar Alhroub, Manal Mahamid and Mohammed Mussalam) withdrew their participation. The Israeli artists (Emmanuel Witzthum, Dror Yaron and Itamar Jobani) had pulled out of the show one day previously in order to protect the Palestinian artists who had been threatened and accused on Facebook of “normalizing relations with Israel”. The Israeli artists pulled out so to allow the Palestinians to remain in the show.
Tavia La Follette, the independent curator of the exhibit said that the trigger for the threats was the use of the words “collaboration” and “dialogue” within the exhibition’s announcements on the websites of the Mattress Factory and Filmmakers Galleries. But according to La Follette those words were never approved by La Follette or the artists in the exhibition.
La Follette said that “There’s language that was put up on the websites that are words used in the land of art all the time,”. “In the art world, ‘collaboration’ and ‘dialogue’ are used all the time. But ‘collaboration’ means something completely different politically. That’s where the problem started.” +
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After 81 days of solitary detention world famous Chinese artist Ai Weiwei is put under house arrest. He suffers from sleeping disorder and memory loss, 18 cameras are monitoring his studio and home, police agents follow his every move, and heavy restrictions from the Kafkaesque Chinese authorities weigh him down. Journalists, the art world and his family all want a piece of him and on top of that he is met with a gigantic lawsuit from the Chinese government, soon to be named ''The Fake Case''. Ai Weiwei is shaken, but during the year on probation he steadily finds new ways to provoke and challenge the mighty powers of the Chinese authorities in his fight for human rights. Ai Weiwei strongly believes that China is ready for change. And he will do everything to make it happen. +
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After Dr. Laura and others began a crusade against the article, which they alleged "normalized pedophilia" among other things, congress voted 355-0 to condemn the article. Congress sought to suppress the study and denounced "all suggestions in the article . . . that indicate that sexual relationships between adults and 'willing' children are less harmful than believed and might be positive for 'willing' children.'' +
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After a "Somali Muslim" resident complained to the administration, Artspace demanded that Harsma remove the artworks containing nudes from the show. In response, the curator covered the nude portions of the works with pieces of paper bearing the word “censored.” Thereafter, Artspace requested that the artworks are moved to a second gallery space where residents would not encounter the nudes. The exhibition closed a week ahead of schedule.
NCAC urged Artspace to reconsider its exhibition policies in keeping with its mission of fostering the arts and protecting the rights of its resident artists. The organization wrote a letter to Artspace, underlining its past history of censorship as well as its "stunning lack of basic knowledge of art history" (from NCAC letter, February 22, 2018). +
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After a campaign of complaints led by the Parent's Television Council, the FCC levied a record-breaking fine of 3.6 million dollars against CBS and its affiliate companies for airing the episode. CBS protested the fine, saying "the program 'featured an important and socially relevant storyline warning parents to exercise greater supervision of their teenage children. The program was not unduly graphic or explicit.'" [http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/11844455/ns/today-entertainment/t/fcc-proposes-mil-fine-cbs-orgy-scene/#.UCwU8kQxs7A] +
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After a local business owner noticed Santee's cartoons in display cases at Caltrain station, he or she contacted a city employee complaining. Associate City Planner Julie Yeh subsequently requested--to public art coordinator Sinem Banna--that the works be removed +
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After a run of performances staged at the state-run theater in Istanbul, public criticism of the show's "vulgarity" led the Mayor of Istanbul to seize oversight of artistic decision-making at the theater. The show will likely be dropped from the repertoire.[http://www.voanews.com/content/turkish_actors_protest_state_control_of_theaters/917403.html] +
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After accepting the art in November 2001, the TAC gallery later rejected Sandidge's entire exposition, citing a "no nudes" policy with which the offending art piece conflicted. +
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After approving funding for ''The Story of Color,'' the NEA withdrew funding from the project, for fear of supporting the Zapatista movement in Mexico, which the book's author is affiliated with. However, Marcos agreed not to take any NEA money, or even proceeds from the book, for himself. +
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After publishing illustrations and photographs from the book during our crowdfunding campaign for the issuing the book, some of the posts were banned and deleted. Then the Facebook page made invisible for public. After sending request for the review and discussion with some Facebook content admin, when we sent explanation about the book, the social, art and education meaning of the book and our posts, the content admin promised to review our request, the page has been deleted instead. We'v lost contact with all fans and all crowdfunding contributors. Then we had to create new Facebook page. +
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After receiving numerous complaints from parents, Nickelodeon immediately took the episode off the air and out of circulation. The episode was also removed from the series official website. +
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After receiving several complaints from construction workers at the airport, the Catholic League contacted JFK officials to inquire about the mural. The Catholic League expressed its concern at having a nude depiction of Jesus remain in an airport terminal, and requested that the airport speak with the artist about altering her rendering of Christ +
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After the Super Bowl aired, the Parents Television Council publicly condemned the exposure, and organized a letter-writing campaign to the FCC asking that CBS and its affiliate companies be fined. The FCC ultimately levied a $550,000 fine against CBS, which is the maximum amount permissible by law ($27,500 to each of CBS's affiliate companies). CBS appealed the decision, however, and a United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit overturned the fine, saying that it was inconsistent with the FCC's longstanding precedent of excusing fleeting obscenities. Furthermore, as the show was not pre-recorded, it was impossible to determine whether the fleeting nudity was intentional or not. [http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/22/business/media/22FCC.html] +
