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As an organization committed to protecting the freedom of thought, inquiry, and expression, the National Coalition Against Censorship is dismayed at growing reports that the Smithsonian Institution-–which includes 21 museums, 14 education and research centers, a zoo, and historical and architectural landmarks—is distorting its programming in response to censorship pressures from the federal government. [...] The post Behold the Fall of “American Greatness” at the Smithsonian Instituti...| National Coalition Against Censorship
As an organization committed to protecting the freedom of thought, inquiry, and expression, the National Coalition Against Censorship is alarmed by reports that the Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery proposed amending the planned display of a painting because of fears that the work would attract the ire of President Donald Trump. The action is [...] The post Cancellation of American Sublime Lays Bare Reality of New Censorship Era appeared first on National Coalition Against...| National Coalition Against Censorship
The Trump administration’s latest travel ban went into effect this month, affecting travel from 19 countries. It bars entry to citizens of Afghanistan, Burma, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen, and places significant visa restrictions on nationals of Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan, [...] The post NEW TRAVEL BAN WILL HAVE COMPOUNDING EFFECTS ON CULTURE IN THE US appeared first on National Coalition ...| National Coalition Against Censorship
Today the National Coalition Against Censorship condemned the decision made by the Whitney Museum of American Art to unilaterally cancel a performance organized by the Curatorial Cohort of its Independent Study Program (ISP). The museum claims that, in a politically provocative introduction of the work at an unaffiliated venue several months earlier, one of the [...] The post Contemporary Culture Requires Artistic Freedom—Especially in times of Political Crisis appeared first on National Co...| National Coalition Against Censorship
In March of 2023 Michelle Hartney’s collaborative mixed media installation work titled Unplanned Parenthood was met with censorship in Idaho. In March 2025, calls for censoring the work nearly succeeded again in Illinois. Hartney met with ACAP Director Elizabeth Larison and shared more about the project, and why she believes some audiences are afraid [...] The post CENSORED ARTISTS AND THEIR STORIES: MICHELLE HARTNEY appeared first on National Coalition Against Censorship.| National Coalition Against Censorship
Today, the National Coalition Against Censorship expressed outrage at the Executive Order titled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History.” The order targets the programming of the Smithsonian Institution, which includes 21 libraries, 14 education and research centers, a zoo, and historical and architectural landmarks, and directs it to comply with the presidential administration’s sense [...] The post Executive Order Reduces Smithsonian Institutions and National Park Service to ...| National Coalition Against Censorship
NCAC is alarmed to learn of the Rhode Island School of Art and Design’s decision to close its public campus cafe, which had been hosting To Every Orange Tree, a group exhibition of student, faculty, and community members’ work on themes of “political resistance, anti-imperialism, and Palestinian liberation.” RISD administrators claimed that “unofficial complaints” about the [...] The post NCAC Condemns Rhode Island School of Art and Design Decision to Shut Down Public Access to ...| National Coalition Against Censorship
Today, the National Coalition Against Censorship, The Authors Guild, The Dramatists Guild of America, The Dramatists Legal Defense Fund, Artists at Risk Connection, AICA International and PEN America expressed deep concern over the Trump Administration’s recent moves to impose ideological control over federally funded cultural programs. Though some of these efforts have already been hindered [...] The post National Free Speech and Art Organizations Warn of a “Golden Age” of Propaganda a...| National Coalition Against Censorship
A trio of civil liberty organizations are speaking up today to demand the Fort Worth Police Department end its unconstitutional censorship and seizure of several pieces of art that were on display at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth.| National Coalition Against Censorship
The National Coalition Against Censorship is dismayed by the news of the premature removal of an art billboard that is part of a temporary project with the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, shortly after Montgomery Mayor Steven Reed called for its deinstallation. The billboard shows a 1965 Spider Martin photograph of state troopers staring [...] The post NCAC Alarmed by Mayoral Order to Censor an Art Billboard Associated With Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts appeared first on National Coalition A...| National Coalition Against Censorship
January 23, 2025 — Today, the National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC) expressed alarm at Chicago city councilmembers’ attempts to censor political artwork on view in an exhibition at the Chicago Cultural Center. Government officials’ efforts to silence speech because of distaste for its political position raise acute First Amendment concerns. The artwork in question is [...] The post NCAC Condemns Chicago City Council’s Efforts to Censor Art Exhibition Criticizing Government Acti...| National Coalition Against Censorship
New York, January 16, 2025 – In the wake of a newly-released report warning of censorship pressures faced by museum directors across the US conducted by the Association for Art Museum Directors, PEN America, and Artists at Risk Connection, the National Coalition Against Censorship encourages cultural leaders to incorporate its Museum Best Practices for [...] The post As Concerns of Art Censorship Rise in Nation’s Museums, NCAC Encourages Museum Directors, Curators, and other Cultural Lead...| National Coalition Against Censorship
Today the National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC), condemned the police seizure of artworks from the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth as apparent evidence in a criminal investigation of child abuse.| National Coalition Against Censorship
Today, the National Coalition Against Censorship and the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression expressed alarm at new exhibition protocols at East Tennessee State University’s Reece Museum, which undermine the artistic integrity of the current exhibition on view.| National Coalition Against Censorship
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