Censorship
As 2023 dawns, the blank A4 sheet—brandished by protestors in China—is a potent political and artistic symbol
The white-paper revolution echoes art history, recalling Robert Ryman and the Philippines-based artist Kiri Dalena
The artist Dorothy Iannone, hailed as a ‘freedom fighter’, dies aged 89
She confronted censorship issues including a legal battle over Henry Miller novel
Are you being 'shadowbanned'? Instagram announces new transparency tools that reveal if posts go against guidelines
New functions show if content goes against the social media platform's Recommendation Guidelines that it uses to decide what should be promoted and searchable
‘Artists have a lot in common with sex workers’: OnlyFans becoming popular platform for artists censored elsewhere
Censorship by more mainstream social media platforms has artists turning to OnlyFans to promote their work
Is it time to #Twexit? How Elon Musk’s Twitter shake-up has divided creatives
With the platform's new owner firing moderators, some artists are hoping for an end to censorship while others fear discrimination
Losing the battle: Cuba’s dissident artists find ways around censorship despite government crackdown
Since the passage of the country’s repressive Decree 349, the state has gone to great lengths to silence critical voices—but artists refuse to be silenced
Arts group takes on Polish government over political interference in cultural institutions
US-based Artistic Freedom Initiative will challenge in EU court the Polish government, saying it is “suppressing free and open artistic expression”
Myanmar's military junta releases outspoken artist Htein Lin who had been sentenced to a year's hard labour
The artist was set free in an amnesty of political prisoners, which included his British wife
US laws meant to stop sex trafficking are making it difficult for artists to promote and sell their art online
A set of ambiguous laws has pushed platforms to refuse service to artists whose work includes nude imagery or could be construed as sexual
Fleeing Twitter? Sick of Instagram? Eight lesser-known social media sites for the art world to try
More than a million users have left Twitter since business magnate took over the platform
Farewell to contemporary art in Russia: the cancellation of the Moscow Biennale marks the end of an era
Dozens of contemporary art shows have been forced to close since the outset of the war with Ukraine—but this one was meant to serve Putinist propaganda
Censored? London premiere of Andres Serrano’s Capitol attack film pulled for being 'pro-Trump'
US artist says that Prince Charles Cinema has “misinterpreted” his work
Jenny Holzer projection takes over Rockefeller Center in support of freedom of expression
The renowned conceptual artist’s latest public art piece, a collaboration with PEN America, comes after after shocking attacks on authors and journalists in the US
Decision to ban pro-Palestine films engulfs Documenta 15 exhibition in another censorship row
Members of the finding committee—including Tate Modern director, Frances Morris—condemn the advisory group’s decision to pull the works
Is art censorship on the rise? How freedom of expression is being curbed across the globe
Plus, a striking photograph by Diane Arbus and the Guggenheim Bilbao at 25
‘Photography gave my existence meaning’: Ukrainian artist Boris Mikhailov on making art in the USSR
As he prepares for a major retrospective in Paris, he reflects on his homeland’s war with Russia and how his art was born from adversity
Jailed Cuban artist receives €50,000 inaugural Prince Claus Impact award
Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara is one of six artists to be honoured by the Dutch NGO
Trigger Warning: a new column on censorship in art today, from must-read books to which algorithms are policing creative content
Our chief contributing editor Gareth Harris will examine attacks on freedom of artistic expression and issues like ‘cancel culture’, providing valuable insights and context
Censored: the exhibitions that Instagram doesn’t want you to see
Galleries and artists are Increasingly finding themselves at the centre of heavy-handed suppression on the social media platform
New venues open in Hong Kong and Taiwan amid tense relations with China
The directors of the Hong Kong Palace Museum and Taipei Performing Arts Center both state that they are free of censorship
Cuban government sentences dissident artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara to five years in prison
After more than a year in prison, Otero Alcántara was convicted of “insulting national symbols”
Three years after censorship meeting, Meta is still not listening to artists
In 2019, 20 artists were invited to discuss Facebook and Instagram's problematic approach to art and nudity—so why has nothing changed?
Russian justice ministry declares feminist artist Yulia Tsvetkova a 'foreign agent'
Tsvetkova, who is currently on trial on charges of disseminating pornography, is one of a growing cohort of dissidents to be labeled 'foreign agents'
Banning Bourgeois? Instagram censors photos of artist's 'sexual' fabric works
According to reports, visitors to The Woven Child exhibtion at London’s Hayward Gallery have had their posts mysteriously deleted
Brazilian museum accused of censoring photographs of Marxist land reform movement
The museum claims the works' removal was due to a scheduling issue, but the curators involved in the selection described the images' omission as "disrespectful and unjust”
New York gallerists say landlord shut down their space to censor exhibition
A show at Brooklyn’s Haul Gallery by Peter Clough featuring explicit imagery provoked a visit from a man claiming to represent the building’s landlord
Russian artist Oleg Kulik faces prosecution for 'rehabilitating Nazism' with sculpture shown at Art Moscow
Politicians said it mocked a monument to the Battle of Stalingrad during the Second World War
Censorship on social media not only limits artists' online reach—it can prevent future opportunities, too
Instagram censorship is preventing some artists from showing the bulk of their work—and punishing them and their followers
Pillar of Shame sculpture honouring Tiananmen Square victims shown in Budapest after Hong Kong removal
Copy of 1997 work erected on street, renamed to honour alleged human rights victims in China
Is Instagram censorship changing art itself?
The platform’s control over what counts as art is effectively changing the way it is made, shown and seen