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ctoddstoll.bsky.social
#ArtCensorship
#EntarteteKunst
April 2, 2025 at 3:46 AM
carlynclark.bsky.social
American Quilter's Society claims to be "World’s Largest Quilting Membership Organization". I'm not a member, but it seems like members might disagree with their decision to silence this artist's voice.

#quilts #quiltsky #artcensorship #creativesuppression #artfreedom
laurashawquilts.bsky.social Laura Shaw Quilts @laurashawquilts.bsky.social · Jan 29
My quilt about women’s reproductive rights has been banned from all American Quilters Society shows this year. It’s been part of a traveling show with SAQA. My artist statement is too long for here. It’s on my website: laurashaw.net/quilts#/your-mother

#quiltsky
January 30, 2025 at 5:10 PM
knitorious.bsky.social
It got accepted 🥳😎 Repost, because the lighting is much better. #art #oil #painting ##artcensorship
August 1, 2025 at 4:06 AM
danaellyn.bsky.social
"Degenerate Artist"
18"x28" acrylic/ink on mat board
AVAILABLE: new.danaellyn.com

This self-portrait, Degenerate Artist, confronts the weight of artistic suppression—past and present. #DegenerateArt #PoliticalArt #ArtCensorship #EntarteteKunst #SelfPortrait #SocialCommentary
March 18, 2025 at 9:08 PM
krautart.bsky.social
Today’s under-reported issue:

Mexican court halts Fabián Cháirez’s “La venida del Señor,” censoring queer nuns & priests in art. When religion outlaws expression, culture pays the price.

Source ▶ hyperallergic.com/994150/mexic...

#ArtCensorship #FreeExpression #LGBTQArt #Mexico #CulturalFreedom
Mexican Artist Decries “Censorship” of Queer Nun and Priest Portraits
Fabián Cháirez’s exhibition in Mexico City was suspended on a judge’s orders after the Association of Christian Lawyers filed a legal complaint.
hyperallergic.com
June 1, 2025 at 11:41 AM
vinceakatori.bsky.social
I will make an official statement in a Dev log, but I will not specify what I stated here- just to avoid being flagged for mislabeling my game as a SFW. I do not appreciate my art being censored; Espically when worse content exists. #indiegame #gamecensorship #artcensorship #queercensorship
July 25, 2025 at 8:06 PM
robertkerber.bsky.social
So, my latest collage posting passed uncensored on tumblr and Meta, but is censored here on BSKY for being "sexually suggestive". In other words, pornography. What a ridiculous, stupid, pathetic decision.

#nocensorship #dontcensorart #freedomofart #artcensorship #artisnotporn
February 25, 2026 at 10:00 AM
krautart.bsky.social
Today’s under-the-radar issue: Egyptian satirist Ashraf Omar was arrested in July ‘24 and remains jailed under terrorism charges for his cartoons. When humor becomes evidence, we’re in trouble.

Source: mimeta.org/mimeta-news-...

#ArtCensorship #FreeExpression #Egypt #CreativeRights #Satire
AI-generated photograph of a politically charged graffiti mural on in a weathered wall. The focal point is a large, black cartoon-style bomb with sharp teeth, bloodshot eyes, and angry yellow eyebrows—giving it a monstrous, threatening expression. A short fuse and a red paint splatter on its side suggest imminent violence. The word “Media” is painted boldly in black capital letters to the right of the bomb, with the "M" partially overlapping the bomb’s side. Beneath “Media,” the phrase “FUCK SCAF” is spray-painted in pink—referencing Egypt’s Supreme Council of the Armed Forces. Surrounding the mural are various handprints in red, Arabic graffiti, and other layered street art elements including a winged figure with a bow and arrow above, and faded stencils of human faces. A pasted protest flyer and a bricked-up window also appear. The overall aesthetic is raw, urgent, and defiant, conveying strong criticism of media and state violence—likely linked to the 2011 Egyptian revolution.
June 14, 2025 at 8:25 AM
ncacensorship.bsky.social
NCAC proudly welcomes Don't Delete Art to its Arts and Culture Advocacy! Thanks to all collaborators for six years of impactful work! 🎨 #DontDeleteArt #ArtsAdvocacy #ArtCensorship
Three hands holding megaphones around text announcing Don't Delete Art joining the National Coalition Against Censorship's arts advocacy.
June 17, 2026 at 8:03 PM
jonesycat.bsky.social
I made this piece for Crack Festival 2025 (the theme was „Carne“)

One thought behind this to talk about censorship on social media platforms and the reactionary backlash in general. But it’s open for interpretation and I’d be happy to hear your thoughts 😸

#art #artcensorship #crackfestival2025
June 29, 2025 at 2:46 PM
knitorious.bsky.social
After finding out my painting was censored for an art show, I was given the option to provide an alternative. By all accounts, this WIP piece fixes all of the concerns brought up about my previous one, which included "Nudity" and "Gore." Fight censorship always. #art #artcensorship
July 27, 2025 at 12:03 AM
ctoddstoll.bsky.social
A poem about the gaze in and at Waterhouse's paintings of nymphs.

Poem and photo collage: 2024 ©.

#Eros
#Poetry
#Feminism
#Waterhouse
#ArtCensorship
#MagicalRealism
#GreekMythology
#VisualSemiotics
#SexualLiberation
November 21, 2024 at 2:36 AM
todaybyai.bsky.social
A pedestal of silence,
a flame no longer hidden.
Footsteps remain.
This is today, as seen by AI

#TodayByAI #AIart #July25 #TransVisibility #ArtCensorship #AmySherald #StatueOfLiberty #TransRightsAreHumanRights #SymbolicArt #QueerArt #TransArt #ArtAsResistance #ContemporaryArt
July 25, 2025 at 3:17 PM
knitorious.bsky.social
Here is the finished painting.

"Pearl Clutcher." 36x24inch oil on canvas.

I don't know if it'll be accepted or not, but I won't go down without a fight. 😇🔥 Fight art censorship! #art #painting #artcensorship
July 30, 2025 at 1:14 AM
ch00-ch00.bsky.social
This post deliberately breaks Bsky's new TOS. Fuck the rules, break 'em. Pry my smut from my cold dead hands.

#bsky #tos #newtos #art #artists #freespeech #freeart #savespeech #artcensorship #bskycensorship
A trans girl in pink with platinum blonde hair dressed in pink latex and fishnets blows the kiss to another woman while holding their face. The other woman is dressed in a slutty police uniform and has dyed red hair with black highlights. She's battered, bloody, her make up is running from crying, and she's tied to a metal folding chair with jumper cables connected to it. She is visibly disgusted and angry and her make-up has been running from crying. The text in the top left reads: Thou shalt not, 1) the morality police defeated 2) dubious consent 3) dangerous kink 4) blood and gore 5) trans women having hobbies A.L. Schafer, "Thou Shalt Not" 1940.
September 30, 2025 at 4:01 AM
fediboard-culture.bsky.social
The fight over Andres Serrano, Robert Mapplethorpe, and the National Endowment for the Arts became a preview of the politics that followed.

#culture #artcensorship #culturewar
How “Piss Christ” Became a Culture-War Bomb
The fight over Andres Serrano, Robert Mapplethorpe, and the National Endowment for the Arts became a preview of the politics that followed.
www.newyorker.com
July 14, 2026 at 11:13 AM
tumbleweird.bsky.social
How to protect fine, upstanding Americans from degenerate artists

tumbleweird.org/protect-americans-degenerate-artists/

By: M. Art Greatagan

Narrated by Rae Witte

#ArtCensorship #Authoritarianism #CultureWar #FreedomOfExpression #politicalart #degenerateart
How to protect fine, upstanding Americans from degenerate artists
“Avoid defining your own actions as ‘censorship’ or ‘control’; instead, tell the people that we are protecting them…”
tumbleweird.org
December 9, 2025 at 5:34 PM
cdjackson.bsky.social
Now @thesmithsonian.bsky.social is chickening out? How does this action fulfill its mission to reflect and represent America? Where has the courage in this country gone?
#uspolitics #artcensorship
Amy Sherald Cancels Smithsonian Exhibition over Censorship Concerns
The National Portrait Gallery considered removing Sherald's painting of a Black transgender Statue of Liberty from an upcoming show.
www.artnews.com
July 26, 2025 at 3:38 PM
elizabethreadsser.bsky.social
Hallelujah!

Thank you, @moderation.bsky.app, for removing the erroneous label!

Huzzah!

#BlueskyCensorship #PhotographyCensorship #ArtCensorship #Vogue
Screen capture of https://bsky.app/profile/elizabethreadsser.bsky.social/post/3mfgo5at7w22p with the "Labels on your content" pop-up window now showing only the label I applied myself, "Non-sexual nudity: E.g.artistic nudes". A stacked window appears in the lower left with the time and date, showing this is true as of 23:52:30 UTC on Thursday, 26 February 2026.
February 26, 2026 at 11:55 PM
elizabethreadsser.bsky.social
Once more: no response from @moderation.bsky.app and the label remains.

I'm starting to wonder if the mod team has a foot fetish and that's why they think the photo is sexual in nature.

#BlueskyCensorship #PhotographyCensorship #ArtCensorship #Vogue
Screen capture of https://bsky.app/profile/elizabethreadsser.bsky.social/post/3mfgo5at7w22p with the "labels on your content" popup, showing that the "Adult content: Explicit sexual images" label applied by @moderation.bsky.app remains on the post despite there being only non-sexual nudity present in the Vogue Magazine photograph. At the bottom of the popup window is a smaller stacked window from timeanddate.com showing the time as 02:55:32 UTC on Thursday, 26 February 2026.
February 26, 2026 at 3:00 AM
elizabethreadsser.bsky.social
Another day, @moderation.bsky.app another appeal.

I'm not okay with you telling everyone that two women whose genitalia are completely covered while they pose for a nude photo are engaging in sex. I'm really not.

#BlueskyCensorship #PhotographyCensorship #ArtCensorship #Vogue
Screen capture of the popup "labels on your content" window on Bluesky post https://bsky.app/profile/elizabethreadsser.bsky.social/post/3mfgo5at7w22p. The "Adult content: Explicit sexual images" label applied erroneously by @moderation.bsky.app on the post remains. It has been appealed. Below it is shown the label I applied to the image myself of "Non-sexual Nudity", which is what the photograph depicts. In the lower right, a separate, stacked window to https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/timezone/utc shows that the time of the screen capture was 23:34:44 UTC on Tuesday, 24 February 2026.
February 24, 2026 at 11:44 PM
thepeale.bsky.social
A glimpse into the work of Glenn F. Walker, an artist who captured the soul of Baltimore with fearless honesty.

#ThePeale #ThePealeBaltimore #BaltimoresCommunityMuseum #BaltimoreVoices #GlennWalker #ArtCensorship #ArtExhibitBaltimore
September 28, 2025 at 12:44 PM
thepeale.bsky.social
Glenn F. Walker: A Baltimore Original. This rare retrospective brings Glenn Walker’s powerful vision back to The Peale, 70 years after his painting shocked City Hall and sparked Baltimore's biggest art censorship battle.

#ThePeale #BaltimoresCommunityMuseum #GlennWalker #ArtCensorship
September 12, 2025 at 4:11 PM