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Echoes of McCarthy: Criticizing Israel and Charges of Antisemitism

Just two months before the long-planned February opening of Samia Halaby’s art retrospective, Indiana University (IU) abruptly canceled the show, citing vague concerns “about guaranteeing the integrity of the exhibit.” But the concerns had nothing to do with Halaby’s colorful abstractions. The last time abstract works were controversial in [...]

By |January 25th, 2024|Categories: News|Tags: , , , , , , , |Comments Off on Echoes of McCarthy: Criticizing Israel and Charges of Antisemitism

Middle East Conflict Fallout: A culture of fear and anger takes over US cultural institutions

Intimidation, doxing, blacklists, cancellations. In the wake of the Hamas attack on Israel and Israel’s retaliatory bombardment of Gaza, a wave of extreme intolerance towards speech critical of Israel and supportive of Palestine has swept across cultural and educational institutions. In the United States and Europe, students and professors [...]

By |November 8th, 2023|Categories: News|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |Comments Off on Middle East Conflict Fallout: A culture of fear and anger takes over US cultural institutions

Artistic Freedom and the Internet Infrastructure

Companies providing core internet infrastructures—including internet service providers, website host companies, payment processors, and more—rarely have substantial contact with their users, user-generated content, or user activities. And, even though they typically lack expertise, authority, resources, and policies to regulate user content with consistency, many online infrastructure companies do just that. [...]

By |December 1st, 2022|Categories: Blog, News|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , |Comments Off on Artistic Freedom and the Internet Infrastructure

5Pointz Decision Establishes Stature for Graffiti Artists

In a landmark case heard in Federal district court in Brooklyn, a judge has ruled that a New York real estate developer must pay millions in damages to a group of 21 graffiti artists to compensate for destroying their work under the Visual Artists Rights Act of 1990 (VARA).

By |February 14th, 2018|Categories: Blog|Tags: , , , |Comments Off on 5Pointz Decision Establishes Stature for Graffiti Artists

Between Boycotts and Special Interest Campaigns: the Chilling of Speech on Israel and Palestine

Any art institution that displays art about the Israeli/Palestinian conflict - or even art that is created by Israeli or Palestinian artists - needs to carefully navigate a space between intense pressures coming from right-wing pro-Israel groups and calls for boycott from supporters of the cultural BDS movement.

By |February 5th, 2018|Categories: Blog|Tags: , , , |Comments Off on Between Boycotts and Special Interest Campaigns: the Chilling of Speech on Israel and Palestine
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