""This is not subtle. This is coordinated,""
""It's a national attempt to control what people see, what they learn, and whose stories get told.""
New York City artists and cultural leaders testified at a City Council oversight hearing about censorship and funding threats linked to federal actions. Testifiers included DCLA Commissioner Laurie Cumbo, Asian American Arts Alliance Executive Director Lisa Gold, and Elizabeth Larison of the National Coalition Against Censorship. The group urged the City Council to address uncertainty from abrupt federal grant terminations and content restrictions. Witnesses warned that grant withdrawals and exhibition cancellations are causing self-censorship and a chilling effect on free speech among arts institutions and artists. Councilmember Erik Bottcher connected cuts from NEA, NEH, and IMLS to coordinated national control over cultural narratives.
Read at Hyperallergic
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]