The Fear of Art: Who Does the Policing? What Is the Role of Self-Censorship?

The Center for Public Scholarship (http://www.newschool.edu/cps/) at The New School (http://www.newschool.edu) presents a public conference on The Fear of Art. Jeffrey Deitch (art dealer), Boris Groys, (art critic), Jack Persekian, (Palestinian Museum director), Lisa Phillips, (New Museum director), and Svetlana Mintcheva (program director at the National Coalition Against Censorship) will examine self-censorship in arts institutions.

Artists are imprisoned and exiled. Art continues to be banned and destroyed. This is evidence of the power of images to unsettle, to speak truth to power, to question our cherished cultural norms and our ideas about what is sacred. Join artists, scholars, and museum directors to discuss the power of art and the importance of advocating for art, artists, and freedom of expression.

For complete information, please visit: http://www.newschool.edu/cps/fear-of-...

The conference has been made possible with generous support from Agnes Gund, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts (http://www.warholfoundation.org/), Ford Foundation (http://www.fordfoundation.org/), ArteEast (http://www.arteeast.org/), and Larry Warsh. The conference is co-sponsored by The Vera List Center for Art and Politics (http://www.newschool.edu/vlc/), PEN American Center (https://www.pen.org/), and the India China Institute at The New School (http://www.indiachinainstitute.org/).

Thursday, February 12, 2015 at 10:00 am to 7:30 pm
The Auditorium at 66 West 12th Street, Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall