The Twelve Days of Censorship
- Years of Censorship Battles
- 120 Days of Sodom
- Egyptian Breasts Milking
- Nude Ladies Dancing
- Lords Banned for Witchcraft
- Bush Monkeys Swimming
- Nude Adults laying
- A golden chastity key
- Aristophanes‘ The Birds
- Catholic French outrage,
- a Clear Channel Dove
- and no art in Newark library
Joy Crane’s chastity belt sculpture was too risque for the “family-friendly” Brookings Art Council Annual Juried Art Exhibit in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
The sculpture depicted a chastity belt hanging from old, rusty iron hooks on a dungeon or torture chamber wall, inferring that people are still in the “Dark Ages” when it comes to women’s rights in USA and all over the world. The belt had a number of phrases on it such as “abuse,” “unequal pay” and “rape.” A golden key hung above the belt with the word “justice” next to it.
Anyone who believes that art is no longer powerful needs only take a look through the many instances — past and current — of censorship of art shows and libraries to see that is clearly not that case.