Check out the video project: "Power, Taboo and the Artist," a series of video interviews with artists and curators worldwide. Missed the panels? You can watch and share these video webcasts and take a look at our photos.
This video is an example of how censorship is good in certain cases but should not be overused. This contains violence, partial nudity, and language. Yet, this video would be nothing without these elements. Censorship can increase the humor. Many agree that a bleeped out word can be more humorous than a curse word by itself. One cannot censor art. [...]
On Monday, September 27, NCAC and BFA Department of Visual & Critical Studies at the School of Visual Arts will screen a special not-so-late-night double feature picture show of controversial films Destricted and Ken Park. A discussion with the filmmakers about censorship and its effects on art will take place during the intermission. These films have been banned in countries [...]
Beat-icon Allen Ginsberg is getting a resurgence of attention, 13 years after his death at the age of 70. A movie based on the story behind Ginsberg's signature poem, HOWL, opens this Friday, September 24. It stars James Franco as the young poet embroiled in a 1957 obscenity trial over the poem, which ended in a landmark win for free [...]
TONIGHT, NCAC and The Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School have invited several prominent visual artists to participate in a discussion about visual expression that provokes controversy today. Some of these artists are associated with the culture wars of the 90's, others were more recently censored during the War on Terrorism. Have attitudes towards representations [...]
Last Wednesday NCAC and the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School were joined by Bill Ivey, Beka Economopoulos, Magdalena Sawon, Nato Thompson, Martha Wilson, and moderator Laura Flanders of GritTV, to discuss public funding of the arts, free speech and self-censorship, and the impact of the Decency Clause. (Check out their bios here.) In an [...]
I chose the topic I did to explain how much disrespect there seems to be in free speech. Everyone is entitled to his or her own opinion but people do not seem to understand respect. I do not believe we should be censored but I do believe we shold have respect for one another!
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Tomorrow, September 15 at 6:30 PM, NCAC and the Vera List Center for Art and Politics, presents the first of two FREE panels on art and censorship. Panel 1, “Survival vs. Autonomy: Public Funding of the Arts, Free Speech and Self-Censorship”, examines how the introduction of the decency clause and culture wars over arts funding in general have contributed to [...]
Tania Bruguera, Cuban installation and video artist discusses public funding in Cuba and the development of alternative institutions Tania Bruguera made these comments for a special internet video project organized by the National Coalition Against Censorship and the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at the New School on the 20th anniversary of the adoption of the Decency Clause. [...]
Tania Bruguera, Cuban installation and video artist discusses the effects of censorship. Tania Bruguera made these comments for a special internet video project organized by the National Coalition Against Censorship and the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at the New School on the 20th anniversary of the adoption of the Decency Clause. Invited artists are videotaping their responses [...]
Tania Bruguera, Cuban installation and video artist discusses the idea of public funding of art. Tania Bruguera made these comments for a special internet video project organized by the National Coalition Against Censorship and the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at the New School on the 20th anniversary of the adoption of the Decency Clause. Invited artists are [...]
Tania Bruguera, Cuban installation and video artist discusses the idea of "taboos" in contemporary culture. Tania Bruguera made these comments for a special internet video project organized by the National Coalition Against Censorship and the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at the New School on the 20th anniversary of the adoption of the Decency Clause. Invited artists are [...]
A disappointing ruling came out last night regarding Sherman Alexie’s The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian in Stockton, Missouri. The Stockton School Board voted 7-0 holding firm in its decision to remove the book from school classrooms, notwithstanding pressure from many educators to keep it. The board also ruled in favor of banning the book from the high [...]
Ricardo Dominguez, Professor of Visual Arts at UC San Diego, talks about his own experience of censorship within the University of California and how it might lead to a chilling effect on faculty and students.
Raqs Media Collective, a contemporary art group from India, gives a statement on the effects of censorship. Raqs Media Collective made these comments for a special internet video project organized by the National Coalition Against Censorship and the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at the New School on the 20th anniversary of the adoption of the Decency Clause. [...]
David Glasser, Co-Chaiman of he Ben Uri Gallery in the London Museum of Art, talks about the censorship and need of public funding for institutions that portray sensitive issues in a thoughtful and respectful manner. Glasser made these comments for a special internet video project organized by the National Coalition Against Censorship and the Vera List Center for Art and [...]
Performance artist and Founding Director of Franklin Furnace Martha Wilson talks about the need of public funding for art that confronts people with reality and changes cultural discourse. Part of the Power, Taboo and the Artist video interview series produced by the National Coalition Against Censorship and the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at the New School on [...]
Artist Steve Lambert talks about the need for public funding of art that is not considered to be commercial. Lambert made these comments for a special internet video project organized by the National Coalition Against Censorship and the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at the New School on the 20th anniversary of the adoption of the Decency Clause. [...]
The story about a guy who just broke up with his girlfriends and just wandering around, hopeless. i choose this topic because it close to real life, people stuck in the break-up situation everyday. I wrote the script for this video in about an hour, wrote down the detail for every second of a music. After that i went to [...]
Artist Boryana Rossa talks about censorship trends in countries in the former Communist bloc. Rossa made these comments for a special internet video project organized by the National Coalition Against Censorship and the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at the New School on the 20th anniversary of the adoption of the Decency Clause. Invited artists are videotaping their [...]
NCAC sent the following letter to Stockton School District in Missouri concerning the challenge to Sherman Alexie’s The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. The novel was used during the 2009-2010 school year as the all-school read for grades 9-12, and challenged because the content did not reflect "community values."
When it was founded in the 1960s, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), a central part of its mission was to support individuals and institutions producing edgy and innovative artwork. Twenty years ago, as a result of pressures on behalf of Republicans in Congress and the religious right, Congress amended the statute governing the NEA to require that it [...]
