{"id":1498808,"date":"2026-01-28T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1498808"},"modified":"2026-01-28T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T08:00:00","slug":"nan-goldins-battle-against-censorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1498808","title":{"rendered":"Nan Goldin&#8217;s Battle Against Censorship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><main class=\"gh-main\"><\/p>\n<article class=\"gh-article post tag-daily-newsletter tag-newsletter no-image\">\n<header class=\"gh-article-header gh-canvas\">\n<p>                Daily Newsletter<\/p>\n<h1 class=\"gh-article-title is-title\">Nan Goldin&#8217;s Battle Against Censorship<\/h1>\n<p class=\"gh-article-excerpt is-body\">Also: Street signs against fascism, Gabrielle Goliath&#8217;s lesson in resistance, and how Joan Mir\u00f3 fell in love with America. <\/p>\n<div class=\"gh-article-meta\">\n<div class=\"gh-article-author-image instapaper_ignore\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-profile-image\" src=\"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/hyperallergic-favicon-d-blank-r-g-s-500-7.png\" alt=\"Hyperallergic\" title=\"hyperallergic-favicon-d-blank-r-g-s-500-7\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"gh-article-meta-wrapper\">\n<h4 class=\"gh-article-author-name\">Hyperallergic<\/h4>\n<div class=\"gh-article-meta-content\"><time class=\"gh-article-meta-date\" datetime=\"2026-01-28\">January 28, 2026<\/time><span class=\"gh-article-meta-length\"><span class=\"bull\">\u2014<\/span> 4 min read<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<section class=\"gh-content gh-canvas is-body\">\n<p>News broke last week that the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) passed on acquiring a work by Nan Goldin after some committee members accused the artist \u2014 who is Jewish \u2014 of antisemitism over her vocal stance against Israel&#8217;s genocide in Gaza. In an interview with <em>Hyperallergic <\/em>today, Goldin calls it what it is: censorship.<\/p>\n<p>The photographer and activist has long defended the human rights of Palestinians and other oppressed people, and denounced the conflation of antisemitism and anti-Zionism. The AGO&#8217;s decision to vote against the acquisition is just the latest incident in a distressing, ongoing pattern of institutions silencing speech in support of Gaza. <\/p>\n<p>\u2014<em>Valentina Di Liscia, senior editor <\/em><\/p>\n<hr>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-106.png\" class=\"kg-image\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1280\" height=\"856\" title=\"image-106\"><figcaption><span>Nan Goldin, \u201dStendhal Syndrome\u201d 2024 (video still) (\u00a9 Nan Goldin, courtesy the artist and Gagosian)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3 id=\"nan-goldin-speaks-out-on-art-gallery-of-ontario%E2%80%99s-halted-acquisition\">Nan Goldin Speaks Out on Art Gallery of Ontario\u2019s Halted Acquisition<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s chilling that this censorship plays out especially regarding Palestine, the great exception to free speech,\u201d Goldin said<em>.<\/em> &#8220;I worry about how many other people are experiencing this kind of censorship without it being reported.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<div class=\"kg-card kg-cta-card kg-cta-bg-white kg-cta-immersive  kg-cta-has-img  \" data-layout=\"immersive\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-sponsor-label-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-sponsor-label\"><span>SPONSORED<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-cta-content\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-image-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/2400x1350_nivia-hernandez-2025-august2025-512-3.jpg\" alt=\"CTA Image\" data-image-dimensions=\"1200x675\" title=\"2400x1350_nivia-hernandez-2025-august2025-512-3\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-cta-content-inner\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-text\">\n<p><b><strong>Reach New Creative Heights at SVA Continuing Education<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>The School of Visual Arts in NYC offers more than 200 in-person and online courses, along with 10+ artist residency programs.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>                            Learn more<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2 id=\"news\">News<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-109-1.png\" class=\"kg-image\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" title=\"image-109-1\"><figcaption><span>The Studio Museum in Harlem last week (photo used with permission)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>The Studio Museum in Harlem will remain temporarily closed until February 7 to remediate water damage from a \u201csprinkler emergency\u201d last weekend. The museum reopened to the public\u00a0on November 15 after a seven-year closure and the construction of a new building by Adjaye Associates with Cooper Robertson.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"attention-fascism-ahead\">Attention, Fascism Ahead<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-107-1.png\" class=\"kg-image\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1536\" height=\"864\" title=\"image-107-1\"><figcaption><span>Sign by Make it Weird and Resistance Ephemera installed in the Fishtown neighborhood of Philadelphia in October 2025 (photo courtesy the artist)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>An artist who goes by\u00a0Make it Weird has installed signs mimicking common traffic signage across Philadelphia to alert residents of ICE threats and looming authoritarianism. One of the signs reads: &#8220;Somewhere in America, a little girl is hiding in an attic writing about\u00a0ICE.&#8221; Isabella Segalovich reports from Philadelphia. <\/p>\n<hr>\n<div class=\"kg-card kg-cta-card kg-cta-bg-white kg-cta-immersive  kg-cta-has-img  \" data-layout=\"immersive\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-sponsor-label-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-sponsor-label\"><span>SPONSORED<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-cta-content\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-image-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/fov_sandcastles_hyperallergic_sponsoredpost_2400x1350_01-6.png\" alt=\"CTA Image\" data-image-dimensions=\"1200x675\" title=\"fov_sandcastles_hyperallergic_sponsoredpost_2400x1350_01-6\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-cta-content-inner\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-text\">\n<p><i><b><strong class=\"italic\">Sandcastles<\/strong><\/b><\/i><b><strong> Tells the Tale of Two Singapores<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>The new short from documentary filmmaker and multimedia journalist Carin Leong explores the transient nature of humankind\u2019s existence through sand.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>                            Learn more<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"opinion\">Opinion<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-103-1.png\" class=\"kg-image\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1125\" title=\"image-103-1\"><figcaption><span>Gabrielle Goliath, &#8220;Elegy &#8211; Eunice Ntombifuthi Dube&#8221; (2018) at the Centre for the Less Good Idea in Johannesburg (photo by Stella Tate, all images courtesy the artist)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3 id=\"gabrielle-goliath-strikes-a-tuning-fork-of-dissent\">Gabrielle Goliath Strikes a Tuning Fork of Dissent<\/h3>\n<p>When South Africa&#8217;s culture minister abruptly cancelled its Venice Biennale pavilion artwork because it addressed the genocide in Gaza, it seemed a strange yet all-too-familiar contradiction. Why would a nation that accused Israel of genocide at the International Court of Justice censor an artwork that mourns Palestinian lives? Was the culture minister merely incompetent and irrational? Scholar M. Neelika Jayawardane, who researches South African art and literature, thinks we&#8217;re asking the wrong questions. She argues in an opinion today that this example, and the art piece by Gabrielle Goliath at its heart, reveals a broader framework of state censorship that artists are uniquely positioned to resist.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"from-our-critics\">From Our Critics<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-104.png\" class=\"kg-image\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1615\" title=\"image-104\"><figcaption><span>Atelier 17, a meeting point for European and American artists in New York\u00a0(Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, photo \u00a9 Martin Harris)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3 id=\"how-joan-mir%C3%B3-and-america-fell-in-love\">How Joan Mir\u00f3 and America Fell in Love<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cIn the future world, America, with its energy and vitality, must play a leading role,\u201d he told Matisse. | Lauren Moya Ford<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"for-dyani-white-hawk-love-is-an-act-of-resistance\">For Dyani White Hawk, Love Is an Act of Resistance<\/h3>\n<p>Her exhibition &#8220;Love Language&#8221; invites viewers into the vibrant cultural legacies of Native art, and connections to land, lineage, and community. | Sheila Dickinson<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"member-comment\">Member Comment <\/h2>\n<p>Linda Dunne on John Yau&#8217;s &#8220;Jeff Koons\u2019s Reflective Sculptures Mirror the One Percent&#8221;:<\/p>\n<div class=\"kg-card kg-callout-card kg-callout-card-yellow\">\n<div class=\"kg-callout-text\">Bravo, John! This is just about perfect. You slide the knife with such grace.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"from-the-archive\">From the Archive  <\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-105.png\" class=\"kg-image\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" title=\"image-105\"><figcaption><span>American photographer, artist, and activist Nan Goldin (photo by Max Cramer, courtesy the artist)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3 id=\"all-the-beauty-and-the-tenderness-of-nan-goldin\">All the Beauty and the Tenderness of Nan Goldin<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;m not so interested in photography anymore,\u201d Goldin told our editor-in-chief. \u201cThat should be the headline,\u201d he replied. | Hakim Bishara<\/p>\n<ul class=\"post-tags\">\n<li>\n                        Daily Newsletter\n                      <\/li>\n<li>\n                        Newsletter\n                      <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<\/article>\n<p><\/main><\/p>\n<article class=\"gh-article post tag-daily-newsletter tag-newsletter no-image\">\n<header class=\"gh-article-header gh-canvas\">\n<p>                Daily Newsletter<\/p>\n<h1 class=\"gh-article-title is-title\">Nan Goldin&#8217;s Battle Against Censorship<\/h1>\n<p class=\"gh-article-excerpt is-body\">Also: Street signs against fascism, Gabrielle Goliath&#8217;s lesson in resistance, and how Joan Mir\u00f3 fell in love with America. <\/p>\n<div class=\"gh-article-meta\">\n<div class=\"gh-article-author-image instapaper_ignore\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-profile-image\" src=\"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/hyperallergic-favicon-d-blank-r-g-s-500-7.png\" alt=\"Hyperallergic\" title=\"hyperallergic-favicon-d-blank-r-g-s-500-7\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"gh-article-meta-wrapper\">\n<h4 class=\"gh-article-author-name\">Hyperallergic<\/h4>\n<div class=\"gh-article-meta-content\"><time class=\"gh-article-meta-date\" datetime=\"2026-01-28\">January 28, 2026<\/time><span class=\"gh-article-meta-length\"><span class=\"bull\">\u2014<\/span> 4 min read<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<section class=\"gh-content gh-canvas is-body\">\n<p>News broke last week that the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) passed on acquiring a work by Nan Goldin after some committee members accused the artist \u2014 who is Jewish \u2014 of antisemitism over her vocal stance against Israel&#8217;s genocide in Gaza. In an interview with <em>Hyperallergic <\/em>today, Goldin calls it what it is: censorship.<\/p>\n<p>The photographer and activist has long defended the human rights of Palestinians and other oppressed people, and denounced the conflation of antisemitism and anti-Zionism. The AGO&#8217;s decision to vote against the acquisition is just the latest incident in a distressing, ongoing pattern of institutions silencing speech in support of Gaza. <\/p>\n<p>\u2014<em>Valentina Di Liscia, senior editor <\/em><\/p>\n<hr>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-106.png\" class=\"kg-image\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1280\" height=\"856\" title=\"image-106\"><figcaption><span>Nan Goldin, \u201dStendhal Syndrome\u201d 2024 (video still) (\u00a9 Nan Goldin, courtesy the artist and Gagosian)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3 id=\"nan-goldin-speaks-out-on-art-gallery-of-ontario%E2%80%99s-halted-acquisition\">Nan Goldin Speaks Out on Art Gallery of Ontario\u2019s Halted Acquisition<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s chilling that this censorship plays out especially regarding Palestine, the great exception to free speech,\u201d Goldin said<em>.<\/em> &#8220;I worry about how many other people are experiencing this kind of censorship without it being reported.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<div class=\"kg-card kg-cta-card kg-cta-bg-white kg-cta-immersive  kg-cta-has-img  \" data-layout=\"immersive\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-sponsor-label-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-sponsor-label\"><span>SPONSORED<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-cta-content\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-image-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/2400x1350_nivia-hernandez-2025-august2025-512-3.jpg\" alt=\"CTA Image\" data-image-dimensions=\"1200x675\" title=\"2400x1350_nivia-hernandez-2025-august2025-512-3\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-cta-content-inner\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-text\">\n<p><b><strong>Reach New Creative Heights at SVA Continuing Education<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>The School of Visual Arts in NYC offers more than 200 in-person and online courses, along with 10+ artist residency programs.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>                            Learn more<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2 id=\"news\">News<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-109-1.png\" class=\"kg-image\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" title=\"image-109-1\"><figcaption><span>The Studio Museum in Harlem last week (photo used with permission)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>The Studio Museum in Harlem will remain temporarily closed until February 7 to remediate water damage from a \u201csprinkler emergency\u201d last weekend. The museum reopened to the public\u00a0on November 15 after a seven-year closure and the construction of a new building by Adjaye Associates with Cooper Robertson.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"attention-fascism-ahead\">Attention, Fascism Ahead<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-107-1.png\" class=\"kg-image\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1536\" height=\"864\" title=\"image-107-1\"><figcaption><span>Sign by Make it Weird and Resistance Ephemera installed in the Fishtown neighborhood of Philadelphia in October 2025 (photo courtesy the artist)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>An artist who goes by\u00a0Make it Weird has installed signs mimicking common traffic signage across Philadelphia to alert residents of ICE threats and looming authoritarianism. One of the signs reads: &#8220;Somewhere in America, a little girl is hiding in an attic writing about\u00a0ICE.&#8221; Isabella Segalovich reports from Philadelphia. <\/p>\n<hr>\n<div class=\"kg-card kg-cta-card kg-cta-bg-white kg-cta-immersive  kg-cta-has-img  \" data-layout=\"immersive\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-sponsor-label-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-sponsor-label\"><span>SPONSORED<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-cta-content\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-image-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/fov_sandcastles_hyperallergic_sponsoredpost_2400x1350_01-6.png\" alt=\"CTA Image\" data-image-dimensions=\"1200x675\" title=\"fov_sandcastles_hyperallergic_sponsoredpost_2400x1350_01-6\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-cta-content-inner\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-text\">\n<p><i><b><strong class=\"italic\">Sandcastles<\/strong><\/b><\/i><b><strong> Tells the Tale of Two Singapores<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>The new short from documentary filmmaker and multimedia journalist Carin Leong explores the transient nature of humankind\u2019s existence through sand.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>                            Learn more<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"opinion\">Opinion<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-103-1.png\" class=\"kg-image\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1125\" title=\"image-103-1\"><figcaption><span>Gabrielle Goliath, &#8220;Elegy &#8211; Eunice Ntombifuthi Dube&#8221; (2018) at the Centre for the Less Good Idea in Johannesburg (photo by Stella Tate, all images courtesy the artist)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3 id=\"gabrielle-goliath-strikes-a-tuning-fork-of-dissent\">Gabrielle Goliath Strikes a Tuning Fork of Dissent<\/h3>\n<p>When South Africa&#8217;s culture minister abruptly cancelled its Venice Biennale pavilion artwork because it addressed the genocide in Gaza, it seemed a strange yet all-too-familiar contradiction. Why would a nation that accused Israel of genocide at the International Court of Justice censor an artwork that mourns Palestinian lives? Was the culture minister merely incompetent and irrational? Scholar M. Neelika Jayawardane, who researches South African art and literature, thinks we&#8217;re asking the wrong questions. She argues in an opinion today that this example, and the art piece by Gabrielle Goliath at its heart, reveals a broader framework of state censorship that artists are uniquely positioned to resist.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"from-our-critics\">From Our Critics<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-104.png\" class=\"kg-image\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1615\" title=\"image-104\"><figcaption><span>Atelier 17, a meeting point for European and American artists in New York\u00a0(Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, photo \u00a9 Martin Harris)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3 id=\"how-joan-mir%C3%B3-and-america-fell-in-love\">How Joan Mir\u00f3 and America Fell in Love<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cIn the future world, America, with its energy and vitality, must play a leading role,\u201d he told Matisse. | Lauren Moya Ford<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"for-dyani-white-hawk-love-is-an-act-of-resistance\">For Dyani White Hawk, Love Is an Act of Resistance<\/h3>\n<p>Her exhibition &#8220;Love Language&#8221; invites viewers into the vibrant cultural legacies of Native art, and connections to land, lineage, and community. | Sheila Dickinson<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"member-comment\">Member Comment <\/h2>\n<p>Linda Dunne on John Yau&#8217;s &#8220;Jeff Koons\u2019s Reflective Sculptures Mirror the One Percent&#8221;:<\/p>\n<div class=\"kg-card kg-callout-card kg-callout-card-yellow\">\n<div class=\"kg-callout-text\">Bravo, John! This is just about perfect. You slide the knife with such grace.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"from-the-archive\">From the Archive  <\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-105.png\" class=\"kg-image\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" title=\"image-105\"><figcaption><span>American photographer, artist, and activist Nan Goldin (photo by Max Cramer, courtesy the artist)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3 id=\"all-the-beauty-and-the-tenderness-of-nan-goldin\">All the Beauty and the Tenderness of Nan Goldin<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;m not so interested in photography anymore,\u201d Goldin told our editor-in-chief. \u201cThat should be the headline,\u201d he replied. | Hakim Bishara<\/p>\n<ul class=\"post-tags\">\n<li>\n                        Daily Newsletter\n                      <\/li>\n<li>\n                        Newsletter\n                      <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<\/article>\n<section class=\"gh-content gh-canvas is-body\">\n<p>News broke last week that the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) passed on acquiring a work by Nan Goldin after some committee members accused the artist \u2014 who is Jewish \u2014 of antisemitism over her vocal stance against Israel&#8217;s genocide in Gaza. In an interview with <em>Hyperallergic <\/em>today, Goldin calls it what it is: censorship.<\/p>\n<p>The photographer and activist has long defended the human rights of Palestinians and other oppressed people, and denounced the conflation of antisemitism and anti-Zionism. The AGO&#8217;s decision to vote against the acquisition is just the latest incident in a distressing, ongoing pattern of institutions silencing speech in support of Gaza. <\/p>\n<p>\u2014<em>Valentina Di Liscia, senior editor <\/em><\/p>\n<hr>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-106.png\" class=\"kg-image\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1280\" height=\"856\" title=\"image-106\"><figcaption><span>Nan Goldin, \u201dStendhal Syndrome\u201d 2024 (video still) (\u00a9 Nan Goldin, courtesy the artist and Gagosian)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3 id=\"nan-goldin-speaks-out-on-art-gallery-of-ontario%E2%80%99s-halted-acquisition\">Nan Goldin Speaks Out on Art Gallery of Ontario\u2019s Halted Acquisition<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s chilling that this censorship plays out especially regarding Palestine, the great exception to free speech,\u201d Goldin said<em>.<\/em> &#8220;I worry about how many other people are experiencing this kind of censorship without it being reported.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<div class=\"kg-card kg-cta-card kg-cta-bg-white kg-cta-immersive  kg-cta-has-img  \" data-layout=\"immersive\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-sponsor-label-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-sponsor-label\"><span>SPONSORED<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-cta-content\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-image-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/2400x1350_nivia-hernandez-2025-august2025-512-3.jpg\" alt=\"CTA Image\" data-image-dimensions=\"1200x675\" title=\"2400x1350_nivia-hernandez-2025-august2025-512-3\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-cta-content-inner\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-text\">\n<p><b><strong>Reach New Creative Heights at SVA Continuing Education<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>The School of Visual Arts in NYC offers more than 200 in-person and online courses, along with 10+ artist residency programs.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>                            Learn more<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2 id=\"news\">News<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-109-1.png\" class=\"kg-image\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" title=\"image-109-1\"><figcaption><span>The Studio Museum in Harlem last week (photo used with permission)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>The Studio Museum in Harlem will remain temporarily closed until February 7 to remediate water damage from a \u201csprinkler emergency\u201d last weekend. The museum reopened to the public\u00a0on November 15 after a seven-year closure and the construction of a new building by Adjaye Associates with Cooper Robertson.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"attention-fascism-ahead\">Attention, Fascism Ahead<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-107-1.png\" class=\"kg-image\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1536\" height=\"864\" title=\"image-107-1\"><figcaption><span>Sign by Make it Weird and Resistance Ephemera installed in the Fishtown neighborhood of Philadelphia in October 2025 (photo courtesy the artist)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>An artist who goes by\u00a0Make it Weird has installed signs mimicking common traffic signage across Philadelphia to alert residents of ICE threats and looming authoritarianism. One of the signs reads: &#8220;Somewhere in America, a little girl is hiding in an attic writing about\u00a0ICE.&#8221; Isabella Segalovich reports from Philadelphia. <\/p>\n<hr>\n<div class=\"kg-card kg-cta-card kg-cta-bg-white kg-cta-immersive  kg-cta-has-img  \" data-layout=\"immersive\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-sponsor-label-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-sponsor-label\"><span>SPONSORED<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-cta-content\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-image-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/fov_sandcastles_hyperallergic_sponsoredpost_2400x1350_01-6.png\" alt=\"CTA Image\" data-image-dimensions=\"1200x675\" title=\"fov_sandcastles_hyperallergic_sponsoredpost_2400x1350_01-6\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-cta-content-inner\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-text\">\n<p><i><b><strong class=\"italic\">Sandcastles<\/strong><\/b><\/i><b><strong> Tells the Tale of Two Singapores<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>The new short from documentary filmmaker and multimedia journalist Carin Leong explores the transient nature of humankind\u2019s existence through sand.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>                            Learn more<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"opinion\">Opinion<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-103-1.png\" class=\"kg-image\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1125\" title=\"image-103-1\"><figcaption><span>Gabrielle Goliath, &#8220;Elegy &#8211; Eunice Ntombifuthi Dube&#8221; (2018) at the Centre for the Less Good Idea in Johannesburg (photo by Stella Tate, all images courtesy the artist)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3 id=\"gabrielle-goliath-strikes-a-tuning-fork-of-dissent\">Gabrielle Goliath Strikes a Tuning Fork of Dissent<\/h3>\n<p>When South Africa&#8217;s culture minister abruptly cancelled its Venice Biennale pavilion artwork because it addressed the genocide in Gaza, it seemed a strange yet all-too-familiar contradiction. Why would a nation that accused Israel of genocide at the International Court of Justice censor an artwork that mourns Palestinian lives? Was the culture minister merely incompetent and irrational? Scholar M. Neelika Jayawardane, who researches South African art and literature, thinks we&#8217;re asking the wrong questions. She argues in an opinion today that this example, and the art piece by Gabrielle Goliath at its heart, reveals a broader framework of state censorship that artists are uniquely positioned to resist.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"from-our-critics\">From Our Critics<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-104.png\" class=\"kg-image\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1615\" title=\"image-104\"><figcaption><span>Atelier 17, a meeting point for European and American artists in New York\u00a0(Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, photo \u00a9 Martin Harris)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3 id=\"how-joan-mir%C3%B3-and-america-fell-in-love\">How Joan Mir\u00f3 and America Fell in Love<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cIn the future world, America, with its energy and vitality, must play a leading role,\u201d he told Matisse. | Lauren Moya Ford<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"for-dyani-white-hawk-love-is-an-act-of-resistance\">For Dyani White Hawk, Love Is an Act of Resistance<\/h3>\n<p>Her exhibition &#8220;Love Language&#8221; invites viewers into the vibrant cultural legacies of Native art, and connections to land, lineage, and community. | Sheila Dickinson<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"member-comment\">Member Comment <\/h2>\n<p>Linda Dunne on John Yau&#8217;s &#8220;Jeff Koons\u2019s Reflective Sculptures Mirror the One Percent&#8221;:<\/p>\n<div class=\"kg-card kg-callout-card kg-callout-card-yellow\">\n<div class=\"kg-callout-text\">Bravo, John! This is just about perfect. You slide the knife with such grace.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"from-the-archive\">From the Archive  <\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-105.png\" class=\"kg-image\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" title=\"image-105\"><figcaption><span>American photographer, artist, and activist Nan Goldin (photo by Max Cramer, courtesy the artist)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3 id=\"all-the-beauty-and-the-tenderness-of-nan-goldin\">All the Beauty and the Tenderness of Nan Goldin<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;m not so interested in photography anymore,\u201d Goldin told our editor-in-chief. \u201cThat should be the headline,\u201d he replied. | Hakim Bishara<\/p>\n<ul class=\"post-tags\">\n<li>\n                        Daily Newsletter\n                      <\/li>\n<li>\n                        Newsletter\n                      <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<article class=\"gh-card post\">\n<figure class=\"gh-card-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/prattmanhattangallery_ruglifelevchenya.jpg\" alt=\"Pratt Manhattan Gallery Presents \u201cRugLife\u201d\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"prattmanhattangallery_ruglifelevchenya\"><\/figure>\n<div class=\"gh-card-wrapper\">\n<h3 class=\"gh-card-title is-title\">Pratt Manhattan Gallery Presents \u201cRugLife\u201d<\/h3>\n<p class=\"gh-card-excerpt is-body\">Sculptural carpets, woven works, and reimagined textiles by 14 contemporary artists examine housing, technology, social justice, and the environment.<\/p>\n<footer class=\"gh-card-meta\"><span class=\"gh-card-author\">Pratt Manhattan Gallery<\/span><\/footer>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"gh-card post\">\n<figure class=\"gh-card-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/nycedc-habg-rfp2025-hyperallergicannouncementad-1-8.jpg\" alt=\"Request for Proposals: Operator for the Harlem African Burial Ground Cultural Education Center\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"nycedc-habg-rfp2025-hyperallergicannouncementad-1-8\"><\/figure>\n<div class=\"gh-card-wrapper\">\n<h3 class=\"gh-card-title is-title\">Request for Proposals: Operator for the Harlem African Burial Ground Cultural Education Center<\/h3>\n<p class=\"gh-card-excerpt is-body\">Learn about this opportunity to develop a cultural education center at the historic East Harlem site during informational sessions in January and February.<\/p>\n<footer class=\"gh-card-meta\"><span class=\"gh-card-author\">New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC)<\/span><\/footer>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"gh-card post\">\n<figure class=\"gh-card-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/madsen_maud_playthegame-1-7.jpeg\" alt=\"New York Academy of Art Presents \u201cChubb Fellows &amp; Friends\u201d\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"madsen_maud_playthegame-1-7\"><\/figure>\n<div class=\"gh-card-wrapper\">\n<h3 class=\"gh-card-title is-title\">New York Academy of Art Presents \u201cChubb Fellows &amp; Friends\u201d<\/h3>\n<p class=\"gh-card-excerpt is-body\">Featuring past fellows alongside a broader circle of artists linked to the Academy, the show brings together work by Danica Lundy, Dana Schutz, Tschabalala Self, Amy Sherald, and more.<\/p>\n<footer class=\"gh-card-meta\"><span class=\"gh-card-author\">New York Academy of Art<\/span><\/footer>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"gh-card post\">\n<figure class=\"gh-card-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/for_which_it_stands-7.png\" alt=\"For Which It Stands\u2026\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"for_which_it_stands-7\"><\/figure>\n<div class=\"gh-card-wrapper\">\n<h3 class=\"gh-card-title is-title\">For Which It Stands\u2026<\/h3>\n<p class=\"gh-card-excerpt is-body\">Commemorating the 250th anniversary of the United States, this major loan exhibition at the Fairfield University Art Museum explores more than a century of artists taking on the American flag.<\/p>\n<footer class=\"gh-card-meta\"><span class=\"gh-card-author\">Fairfield University Art Museum<\/span><\/footer>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p> Source URL: https:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/nan-goldin-speaks-out-against-cencorship\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daily Newsletter Nan Goldin&#8217;s Battle Against Censorship Also: Street signs against fascism, Gabrielle Goliath&#8217;s lesson in resistance, and how Joan Mir\u00f3 fell in love with America. 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