On this month’s episode, Steve and Katie dive into the charged topic of censorship.  With guest Professor Amy Adler they talk about government and non-government attempts to censor art, what the legal boundaries are and where the law actually has little if nothing to say about censorship of art.  They describe applicable First Amendment doctrine, apply it to art and examine particular examples of art “censorship” from the culture wars of the 1990s through today, from both the political right and left. Cases: NEA v. Finley, 524 U.S. 569 (1998) https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/524/569/ Brooklyn Institute of Arts v. City of New York, 64 F. Supp. 2d 184 (EDNY 1999) https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp2/64/184/2578531/ Miller v. California, 413 U.S. 15 (1973) https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/413/15/case.html   More on Professor Amy Adler: https://its.law.nyu.edu/facultyprofiles/index.cfm?fuseaction=profile.publications&personid=19731 https://its.law.nyu.edu/faculty/profiles/representiveFiles/AAdler%20-WhatsLeft_07384796-06AF-3DCE-319D61EB85F8DEE0.pdf https://its.law.nyu.edu/faculty/profiles/representiveFiles/AAdler%20-ArtofCensorship_072BB4FD-0B4D-10ED-EBBCFBD203509CC8.pdf   Articles on topics discussed: https://www.nytimes.com/2000/03/28/nyregion/giuliani-dropping-his-bitter-battle-with-art-museum.html https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/when-art-fought-law-and-art-won-180956810/ http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/30/AR2010113004647.html https://conversations.e-flux.com/t/hannah-blacks-letter-to-the-whitney-biennials-curators-dana-schutz-painting-must-go/6287 https://hyperallergic.com/368290/censorship-not-the-painting-must-go-on-dana-schutzs-image-of-emmett-till/ https://news.artnet.com/art-world/dana-schutz-controversy-recent-protests-changed-museums-forever-1236020 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/27/arts/design/emmett-till-whitney-biennial-schutz.html https://news.artnet.com/art-world/walker-sculpture-garden-to-remove-sam-durant-scaffold-977447 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/13/arts/design/walker-art-center-scaffold.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/26/arts/design/guggenheim-art-and-china-after-1989-animal-welfare.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/28/arts/design/chuck-close-exhibit-harassment-accusations.html https://www.theartnewspaper.com/analysis/museums-too-what-should-institutions-do-when-artists-are-accused-of-abuse