So if someone came in your house and yelled and screamed about how you're a horrible person and you murder babies and eat dung and are a generally bad person, you don't think you should be able to kick them out?
Or if they brought in photos of women being raped and animals tortured and people being killed... you don't think you should be to stop them from showing that to your kids? (if you had kids or a house, hypothetical situation)
No matter the content, private property is still private property and it's a Constitutional right to control what is shown/said/done on your property.
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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.
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Technically, it's not. But nobody has a right to do whatever they want on someone else's property.
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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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To be honest, I find this article hardly worth reading. This is not a precedent at all. Art galleries have been limiting what kind of art they show for years.. It's nothing. Should an art gallery allow a sculptor to show his statues when the gallery is more geared towards watercolors? No, they can put in their gallery whatever they want. The sculptor has no right to say that his statues MUST be displayed, simply on the basis that he's an artist and it's an art gallery..
Frankly, I find your opinion kind of alarming.. There is no way in hell I will ever allow someone to show or do something on my property that I don't want them to say/do. They have no Constitutional right to anything when they are on private property.