Censorship
Lisson Gallery puts Ai Weiwei London show on hold over Israel-Hamas war tweet
The artist-activist defends free speech in a lengthy response, but says that the gallery’s decision is “for his own well-being”
Russian prosecutors seek eight-year prison sentence for artist who installed anti-war messages in grocery store
The St Petersburg artist Sasha Skochilenko was arrested in April 2022 for replacing a store's price labels with information about the war in Ukraine
Organisers of billboard art project allege their show in Texas on prison reform was censored
Companies that manage advertising spaces in Houston reportedly called off the project with little warning or explanation
The bumpy road to acceptance of China's LGBTQ+ artists is explored in a new anthology
Against a backdrop of growing censorship, a book charting the struggle of the community to gain mainstream recognition offers some hope
World Press Photo ‘shocked’ at ousting of Hungarian National Museum director in LGBTQ+ exhibition row
Images of a care home in Manila by Hannah Reyes Morales fell foul of right-wing lawmakers
Following protests, Toronto museum reinstates Palestinian artists’ work in exhibition on 'Death'
The Royal Ontario Museum had edited wall text and cropped an image of a painting, which the artist says amounted to “censorship and alteration”
Appeals court backs Miami Beach decision to remove mural of police shooting victim
Controversial action was previously ruled as an act of “government speech”
Blocked show on Genghis Khan finally opens in France
The exhibition in Nantes was postponed after interventions by Beijing authorities
Veteran cartoonist sacked by The Guardian over depiction of Netanyahu
Steve Bell's unpublished drawing of the Israeli prime minister shows him performing surgery on his own stomach, which has drawn parallels with the antisemitic 'pound of flesh' trope
Tania Bruguera exhibition in Chile opens in modified form after uproar over artist's political stance
The Salvador Allende Solidarity Museum delayed the opening of the Cuban-born artist's solo exhibition amid pushback from Allende family members and supporters
Trigger warning! Museum of Censored Art in Barcelona to display banned works by Ai Weiwei and Goya
Museu de l’Art Prohibit is founded by the Catalan businessman Tatxo Benet
What's behind China's spate of museum closures and downsizings?
As the country's economy takes a nosedive, its institutions face fiscal freeze and covert control amid an increasingly chaotic and arbitrary government censorship regime
Lawsuit over removal of mural honouring victim of police shooting returns to court
Judge previously ruled that taking the artwork down did not violate free speech rights
Invisible by numbers: artists must remain vigilant to escape censorship loop created by social media shadowbans
New European regulations have required Instagram to reveal how some artists’ accounts have been deprived of visibility. But fears remain over who has access to the culture-shaping power of social media
Cuban artists call for boycotts in light of government's 'persistent human rights violations'
Open letter also says that the regime is ‘using art to salvage its public image’
Arizona city accused of censorship for postponing museum exhibitions over Shepard Fairey police brutality print
Municipal officials in Mesa have come under fire for postponing the Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum's autumn shows
'Cancelled' St Petersburg show honouring Timur Novikov finally opens—with censorship
Artists accuse the Russian Museum—which blames technical issues for the delay—of covering up parts of their works
Artist says California city censored his exhibition after local police took offense
Two days after his exhibition at San Mateo City Hall opened, Diego Marcial Rios’s entire show was taken down
Detained Cuban artist and activist pens appeal from prison on two-year anniversary
Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara was imprisoned on charges of contempt and insult to national symbols when widespread protests swept the nation in 2021
Young V&A accused of removing trans-affirming books and poster from display
Former employees of the newly reopened London museum have joined a chorus of criticism over the removal of materials related to trans rights and queer identities
Not safe for work: Beeple donates 'censored NFT' to Italian museum
The image of an orgy in an office setting—a satire of the downfall of banking entrepreneur Sam Bankman-Fried—was allegedly blocked by YouTube due to nudity
Barbican exhibition cancelled in wake of 'anti-Palestinian censorship' row
Resolve Collective has accused staff at the London arts centre of censoring a talk and for showing “hostility towards close family and friends at the exhibition opening”
Activists plan day of action, online and at New York museums, against social media censorship of art
After collecting signatures outside art institutions, the group Don’t Delete Art will deliver its manifesto to Meta’s Manhattan headquarters
Oil giant Chevron removed public art installation without warning, artists allege
The energy giant did not inform the associated artists of their plans to remove a piece of art that advocate for environmental justice, according to organisers
Pop-up museum commemorating Tiananmen Square Massacre opens in New York
A similar institution in Hong Kong was forcibly shuttered in 2021 following the passage of the city’s restrictive security law
'The economy is bad, the mood is worse': Gallery Weekend Beijing returns under renewed fears of censorship
This is the event's first edition since China lifted its Covid restrictions
Hong Kong: artists carve out a space for themselves in public
From giant rubber ducks to thinly veiled protest art, outdoor sculpture is having a moment in the city
Michelangelo's David blocked from Scottish ad campaign
Glasgow's Barolo Restaurant will run posters with the sculpture visible only from the waist up after artwork with the masterpiece in full-view was rejected
Are we more prudish about Michelangelo’s David in 2023 than we were in 1564?
The ousting of a Tallahassee principal after school children were shown images of the famous Renaissance sculpture reveals a rather zealous mindset
Germany’s museums buy back ‘degenerate’ artworks purged by the Nazis
A painting by Egon Schiele is among those bought back by the institutions from where they were confiscated