Debating Art: Censorship Or Protest?

By STEVEN A. HOLMES Published: December 6, 1989 on The New york Times An angry debate has erupted at the New School for Social Research after a caricature of a black man the school was displaying in an art show was defaced by an instructor who branded the work racist....

Gert Jan Kocken

Download the Press Release here in PDF (1.18 Mb) Posted at Stedelijk Museum Gert Jan Kocken 16.09 – 11.11.2007 Opening 15.09.2007, 5-7 p.m. The hundredth exhibition in Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam (since 1993) is devoted to the work of Amsterdam...

Iconoclasm

fr: L’iconoclasme (du gr. εικών eikon « icône » et klaô « casser ») est, au sens strict, la destruction de représentations, qu’elle soit due à des considérations religieuses ou profanes. L’iconoclasme est opposé à l’iconodulie. Ce courant de pensée rejette...

Defacing at The Freedom Tower

The Defacing project by Pablo Gonzalez-Trejo to open at the Freedom Tower in Miami on May 14, 2009. Here is some of the history on this building… by way of wiki The Freedom Tower is a 1925 building in Miami, Florida, that serves as a memorial to Cuban...

Defacing

Etymology de- + face Pronunciation Rhymes: -eɪs Verb Infinitive to deface Third person singular defaces Simple past defaced Past participle defaced Present participle defacing to deface (third-person singular simple present defaces, present participle defacing, simple...