Thursday, February 24, 2011

NY Academy of Art Challenges Facebook Censorship

Excerpt from NY Times article:

Facebook apparently had determined that an image the academy had uploaded to its Facebook page ran afoul of its ban on nudity. Yet the image — an ink-on-paper drawing of a woman’s naked upper body by Steven Assael — was hardly racy. It was the kind of drawing you might see in galleries and museums the world over.

Link to NY Times Article
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/18/art-school-runs-afoul-of-facebooks-nudity-police/?hpw

Link to Academy of Art Blog article addressing the issue.
demyofart.blogspot.com/2011/01/facebook-curator-of-culture.html

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