The National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC) raised concerns today regarding the censorship of an exhibition at the Greek Consulate in New York. An artwork by New York-based artist Georgia Lale was removed on the order of Greece’s Foreign Minister, George Gerapetritis. Political criticism of one of Lale’s works grew following the exhibition’s opening last week, when the leader of the nationalist, pro-Orthodoxy party Niki, claimed that it “mocks” the Greek national flag.
Read NCAC’s full statement to the Greek Consulate here:
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