That’s what Howard, a retiree visiting the National Portrait Gallery, had to say when I told him about the art show that had just been withdrawn from exhibition there. He was sitting on a bench in the ...

A December 2010 protest agains the removal of David Wojnarowicz’s work from the National Portrait Gallery after the Catholic League and members of Congress said it was sacrilegious. (photo by Spencer ...

On March 27, the current president of the United States of America signed an executive order to begin overhauling the Smithsonian Institution. This order comes from an effort to curb what has been ...

Trump battled the Smithsonian, Europe's ongoing crisis over antisemitism, allegations of censorship, and more defined 2025.

The members of the Feminist Image Group were invited to exhibit their artwork at a local library just before the start of the pandemic, member Jennifer Spencer recalls. The day that exhibition was ...

One of my first stories at The State News last September had me writing about a fall opening party at the Broad Art Museum. I quoted administrators as they spoke about MSU's "commitment to the arts" ...

From a show of queer art shut down in Brazil to a painting removed from an art fair in the United Arab Emirates, cultural censorship was rampant this year. Rally outside the Gogol Center in Moscow ...

This post is in response to Is Insulting Religion "Extremism"? By Scott A. McGreal MSc. Blasphemy is a naturally controversial subject. In modern Western countries there is a tension between the ...

Police in Fort Worth, Texas, seized photographs from an art exhibit in November after local politicians decried the images as pornographic. The photos, from artist Sally Mann's 1992 collection ...