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Artists Busted: Censorship in Canada
In the 1960s, police busted a gallery owner for an installation of nudes. More recently, when an artist filmed a cat being killed and eaten, the artist was locked up. Even if the country's definition of obscenity has transformed over time, for decades the debate has stayed the same: Is art censorship an act thwarting obscenity or an Orwellian control?		Educational activities about Artists Busted: Censorship in Canada

	Police attend morality squad lectures		Cops ban 'lewd' drawings		Censors afraid of Virginia Woolf
	In a This Hour Has Seven Days parody on the contentious art censorship case, police attend morality squad lectures. (TV; runs 4:44)		An artist censored for depicting lesbians discusses censorship's double standards. (TV; runs 3:00)		The Nova Scotia Board of Censors bans the "obscene and blasphemous" film adaptation of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Radio; runs 3:55)

	A farmer and his pig		Gallery patrons shocked		Art 'busts' thrown out
	Will Futz, a play about a farmer in love with his pig, escape the morality squad? (TV; runs 1:33)		Visitors to the Isaacs Gallery say Montreal artist Mark Prent's sculptures of butchered human torsos are violent and sick. (Radio; runs 2:26)		Charges against censored works of art are thrown out. (Radio; runs 7:03)

	Squishing Sniffy		University censors 'racist' artworks		Langer busted for child pornography
	As part of a Vancouver performance art piece, a furry brown and white rat named Sniffy faces death by a 25-kilogram concrete block. (TV; runs 2:12)		A gallery at Concordia University in Montreal bans feminist artists for their stereotypical depiction of black women. (TV; runs 2:05)		Police arrest Toronto artist Eli Langer under a new child pornography law. (Radio; runs 2:04)

	Ultra-maxi Priest remains a secret
	An Ontario municipality censors a priest's robe made of maxi-pads, created by an artist who says organized religion makes women embarrassed of their bodies. (TV; runs 5:49)

LINKS Topic from Les Archives de Radio-Canada on the same subject Les arts à l'index Related Topics from CBC's Archives Le Refus global: Revolution in the Arts CBC.ca ZeD performance art: Sniffy the Rat Bus Tour Canadian Culture Online Program partner sites National Film Board of Canada External sites The Canadian Art Database: Works of Robert Markle Provincial film censor boards in Canada The CBC assumes no responsibility for the content of external links.

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