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March 1, 2007
Brooklyn Library Under Fire for Truncating Exhibit—Is it Censorship?
Library Journal
Normally, our superhero lives his life as Norman Oder, a mild-mannered editor and reporter for Library Journal.
Check out the Mad Overkiller in action in his day job, as the bizarro world of Atlantic Yards Report crosses with the Library Journal in today's article covering the controversy surrounding the Footprints exhibit at the Brooklyn Public Library.
All kidding aside, the article leads with this fairly serious new development that has few implications, except to lend credibility to the claims of the library's critics:
The National Coalition Against Censorship, an alliance that includes, among some 50 organizational members, the American Civil Liberties Union, the American Library Association (ALA), and People for the American Way, has criticized the Brooklyn Public Library for censoring an exhibition of art related to a highly controversial local development known as Atlantic Yards. In response, the library acknowledged error in not renaming the exhibit, but staunchly resisted the censorship accusation.
Posted by lumi at March 1, 2007 9:29 AM