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Museo Valenciano de la Ilustración director steps down

Follows censorship controversy

Elizabeth Fortescue
31 March 2010
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Roman de la Calle, the director of the Museo Valenciano de la Ilustración (Museum of Enlightenment) in Valencia, has resigned after a row with politicians over images he refused to take down. They showed politicians implicated in a corruption scandal. A 500-strong demonstration gathered at the museum under the slogans, “We are Roman”, and “Culture without censorship”.

Originally appeared in The Art Newspaper as ‘Censorship in Spain'

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