Giving Compass' Take:
- Americans for the Arts highlights First Amendment Watch's report on the protection the First Amendment gives against censorship of the arts.
- Why is freedom of expression important for art in particular? How can donors help prevent censorship of art?
- Read about arts and culture philanthropy.
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First Amendment Watch at New York University recently published the educator’s guide “Does the First Amendment Allow the Government to Censor Art?” which addresses the relationship between freedom of speech and art censorship. It focuses on exploring two overarching questions: What are the limited circumstances under which public officials can censor art? And what protection does the First Amendment provide?
The rest of the document is organized into five different First Amendment issue sections that are posed to the reader as questions. For example, issue #1 asks, and then answers, “Are Visual Arts Protected ‘Speech’ Under the First Amendment?”
Read the full article about censorship and the arts at Americans for the Arts.