Archive for the 'texas' tag

Can Taking a Harmless Photograph Make You a Criminal?

July 11th, 2012 by Sergio Muñoz Sarmiento

The Spring/Summer 2012 issue of ARCA’s Journal of Art Crime is out. Donn Zaretsky’s column looks at whether the state of Texas can make otherwise harmless photographs illegal if the photographer had the wrong intent when…
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Posted in Constitutional, Criminal, Free Speech, Privacy |

Gallery Director Fired for Political Views?

October 7th, 2011 by Sergio Muñoz Sarmiento

A former director of art galleries says Stephen F. Austin State University fired him illegally for refusing to judge a high school art contest sponsored by a controversial congressman. Christian Cutler seeks…
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School District Sought to Ban Goya, Manet, Boticelli

November 24th, 2010 by Sergio Muñoz Sarmiento

After careful consideration, The Plano Independent School District in Texas has decided against removing a humanities textbook, Culture and Values: A Survey of the Humanities, from its classrooms. The debate began last…
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Posted in Constitutional, Education, Free Speech |

Via Postcards, El Paso Distances Itself From Bloody Juarez

November 18th, 2010 by Sergio Muñoz Sarmiento

We love postcards. Who doesn’t? A gallery in my hometown of El Paso, Texas is installing an art exhibition consisting of paintings and postcards to proclaim that El Paso is not bloody Juarez, Mexico. According to The…
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Posted in Art Law, Criminal, Education |