Werbel offend.’” (Mintcheva 2021, 223). The museum professionals who answered ‘none’ to these questions may already be following this advice and/or have not exhibited work which might be considered provocative.
4.3 Nudity, sexuality, racial stereotypes, and the United States flag are common subjects of complaint, and constraint. News stories in recent years regarding campus art controversies report a large variety of content that has provoked acrimonious debate. Case studies included in the bibliography reference many of the same types of work that interview subjects also discussed as problematic. These two types of sources were used to formulate Question Thirty-Nine, which asked participants to select which content and/or viewpoints of work had been restricted in the past in their institutions. From a total of 71 respondents, 39 answered “none.” However, there were many other boxes checked from the following choices across the ideological spectrum: ⚫ ⚫ ⚫ ⚫ ⚫ ⚫ ⚫
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No Constraints Placed (39) Graphic sexuality (10) Nudity (9) Racial stereotype (8) Political – supporting Democratic politicians and/or ideas (7) Colonizer perspective and/or provenance (7) Artist’s known views, statements, and/ or actions are problematic, even if not reflected in the proposed art (7) Painful historical subjects (6) International conflicts (for example proor anti-China, Israel, Cuba, etc.) (5) Other (5) Anti-vaccine and masking (4) Climate change (4) Anti-immigrant (3) Anti-reproductive rights (3) Derogatory, explicit, or offensive language (3) Campus presented in an unflattering light (3) Political – supporting Republican politicians and/or ideas (3)
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Pro-LGBTQIA (2) Insulting to faith tradition (specify) (2, Islam and Christianity) Police violence / mass incarceration (2) Pro-Black Lives Matter (2) Anti-Black Lives Matter (2) Pro-Confederate symbols (2) Anti-Confederate symbols (2) Pro-gun (2) American flag transformed or ‘damaged’ in negative manner (2) Critical Race Theory (1) Anti-LGBTQIA (1) Pro-vaccine and masking (1) Animal abuse (1) Pro-immigrant (1) Pro-reproductive rights (0) Anti-gun (0) State flag or other icon transformed or damaged in negative manner (0) Campus mascot or other icon transformed or damaged in negative manner (0)
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