23 September: A Texas grand jury in Tyler County has indicted Netflix over allegedly promoting lewd visual material of clothed or partially clothed minors in the French movie Mignonnes / Cuties, according to the New York Post. The charges mention that the visual material “appeals to the prurient interest in sex, and has no serious, literary, artistic, political or …
Read More »‘It’s more important than ever to have artists respond with art as disturbing as the times we live in’ – interview with American artist Patricia Isaza
Artist Patricia Isaza's artwork, Pricktator, was censored, and her rights infringed, by the Howland Cultural Centre in Beacon, New York.
Read More »USA: Lawsuit against Sacha Baron Cohen´s satire political parody
Former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore filed a defamation lawsuit against actor Sacha Baron Cohen for implying that he is a paedophile in his TV show.
Read More »USA: Cartoon linking mask mandate to the Holocaust removed
Kansas state newspaper removed their cartoon in which they compare the mask mandate to the Nazis ordering Jews to board cattle cars.
Read More »USA: Rapper killed; motivation still unknown
Rapper Tray Savage was shot dead while driving in the Chatham district of south Chicago, Illinois. As for now, motivation is still unknown.
Read More »USA: Museum cancelled an exhibition depicting incidents of police brutality
Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland cancelled the exhibition "The Breath of Empty Space" because of “troubling community response”.
Read More »USA: MoMA ignores the artist’s request again at the ‘Gulf Wars’ exhibition
The MoMA removed the artwork of artist Ali Yass in advance to prevent tearing up of the drawings as a form of protest planned by the artist.
Read More »USA: Teenager killed over listening to rap music
17-year-old Elijah Al-Amin was stabbed and killed for listening to rap music on 4 July 2019. The attacker felt "unsafe" because of rap music.
Read More »USA: Could cancel culture threaten artistic freedom on university campuses?
University campuses in the USA have been host to the emerging trend of censoring artworks–historical or otherwise–in an extension of what is known as the ‘cancel culture’ movement.
Read More »USA: Radio station stops playing ‘Baby, It’s Cold Outside’
Several radio stations in North America have stopped playing the holiday classic 'Baby, It’s Cold Outside' following complaints about its lyrics.
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