New Victim of Chinese Censorship: Warhol Show?

Officials say there is no "Chinese art only" policy, but 18 Warhol works slated for a gallery exhibit will spend the Olympics in a warehouse First it was nixing dog meat (BusinessWeek.com, 7/14/08) from Beijing restaurants during the Olympics. Now China's cultural commissars have refused to allow an exhibition of works by Andy Warhol to be shown during next month's Games. The exhibit, Andy Warhol Portraits: Sports, Stars, and Society, was to have opened on July 26 and run through Aug. 21 at Faurschou Gallery, a space in the city's trendy 798 Art District. However the Ministry of Culture has refused to grant a license on the grounds that it was inappropriate to allow an exhibition of works by a foreign artist during the Olympics, according to Kai Heinze, the Danish director of the gallery. The ban on Warhol's works is the... [read full story]