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NCAC Responds to Walker Art Center’s Statement Affirming Decision to Dismantle Controversial Sculpture

June 23, 2017 by NCAC

NCAC Responds to Walker Art Center’s Statement Affirming Decision to Dismantle Controversial Sculpture

The Walker Art Center has responded to our criticism arguing “NCAC has placed undue emphasis on the work’s material structure over its concept.” Read our new response.

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Arts Advocacy Program, sculpture, visual art

NCAC Releases Statement Criticizing Walker Art Center’s Decision to Destroy Controversial Sculpture; UPDATE: Sculpture to be Ceremonially Buried

June 9, 2017 by NCAC

NCAC Releases Statement Criticizing Walker Art Center’s Decision to Destroy Controversial Sculpture; UPDATE: Sculpture to be Ceremonially Buried

NCAC has issued a statement signed by several national and international organizations, opposing the Walker’s decision to dismantle and destroy the controversial sculpture.

Filed Under: Blog, Press Releases Tagged With: art censorship, Arts Advocacy Program, sculpture, visual art

Sculpture of Male Nude Declared Porn by Some Texans

September 24, 2014 by Svetlana Mintcheva

Sculpture of Male Nude Declared Porn by Some Texans

Jorge Marin’s sculpture group Wings of the City has been on display in Houston’s Discovery Green Park since early September. Almost predictably some viewers are objecting to the nudity of the sculptures. As usual those who object do it supposedly on behalf of the innocence of children – though Wings of the City has been exhibited […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Arts Advocacy Program, jorge marin, nude art, Nudity & Pornography, sculpture, visual art

Controversy Around 89 year Old Statue in Queens, NY

February 25, 2011 by Svetlana Mintcheva

Unveiled in 1922, Frederick MacMonnies’ Triumph of Civic Virtue was called sexist from the get go. And sexist it unarguably is (to an extent that it borders on a parody of sexism): Virtue is a club-wielding man, while Vice is two women being trampled beneath Virtue’s feet. The statue stirred up so much public debate […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Arts Advocacy Program, political correctness, public art, sculpture, Triumph of Virtue, Weiner

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