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censorship dateline: art

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• Newsletter on intellectual freedom, 2011-03-01, Vol.60 (2), p.51

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Chicago: American Library Association

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2011

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• At its 2011 Midwinter Meeting in San Diego, the ALA Council on January 11 adopted a "Resolution on the Removal and Censorship of Artwork from the Smithsonian Institution's National Portrait Gallery" (see box) "Was the mural too politically charged for members of the MOCA team?" A representative from MOCA commented that, in addition to facing the Veterans Administration, the mural overlooked a monument to Japanese-American soldiers, and said, "The museum's director explained to BLU that in this context, where MOCA is a guest among this historic Japanese American community, the work was inappropriate." While the National Portrait Gallery is to be commended for presenting a major exhibition that addresses a politically sensitive subject so directly, the Foundation strongly condemns the museum's decision to remove David Wojnarowicz's video A Fire in My Belly from the exhibition, which it did on November 30th in response to threats from the Catholic League and several Washington politicians.