Kiev Museum Director Accused of Censoring Work with Black Paint
Friday, August 2nd, 2013A Ukrainian artist is accusing Nataliia Zabolotna, the exhibition curator and director at Kiev’s Mystetskyi Arsenal, of censoring a work using daubs of black paint. The mural, Judgement Day, was censored claiming it was not in the spirit of the exhibition’s focus on the “Great and Grand,” and has already led to the resignation of deputy director Alexander Solovyov. “I think that censorship is unacceptable, even more so by [an] institution which aims to engage in and support art.” He said. (more…)



