Word: censorships
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Saying that a federal law prohibiting the funding of "obscene" art work constitutes censorship, a Harvard music professor resigned as co-chair of a National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) music panel late last week...
Ditson Professor of Music Earl Kim said Friday that he "could not remain a part of the censorship process," although he said he supports the NEA and Chair John E. Frohnmayer's opposition to the Congressional restrictions...
Since the stepped-up Congressional scrutiny of the NEA, one other panelist has resigned and two artists have rejected NEA grants to protest the alleged censorship...
...scientific journal Buvar in Budapest, one of his first assignments was to study a dam being built on the Danube near the Hungarian village of Nagymaros. Vargha's article, critical of the Czechoslovak-Hungarian project in those pre-glasnost days, was spiked. "That was my first experience with censorship," he says...
...organizations that circulated petitions and staged a rally that drew 1,000 people in support of the show the day before it opened. "We were sick of pressure from a small group of right- wing people," says Kymberly Henson, an artist who co-founded a group called Voice Against Censorship. "We felt we didn't have...