i am not sure that i see how privatized censorship is any less censorship than it would be had it been carried out by an arm of the state.
why bother with explicit acts of political censorship when you can create conditions that would prompt people do do the work on their own?
how did the seperation between types of agencies responsible for particular acts of censorship turn into a seperation between types of actions (on the one hand, censorship, on the other a private individual exercizing his regal prerogatives over his domain)?
personally, i think the gallery's decision is contemptable....weak.
a fine statement to give to young artists, who in general have trouble getting shows to begin with--be nice, be servile, or we will close you down.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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