{"id":7526,"date":"2006-05-13T09:46:07","date_gmt":"2006-05-13T16:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2006\/05\/13\/china-orders-art-galleries-to-remove-paintings-with-political-themes-david-barboza\/"},"modified":"2006-05-13T09:46:07","modified_gmt":"2006-05-13T16:46:07","slug":"china-orders-art-galleries-to-remove-paintings-with-political-themes-david-barboza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2006\/05\/china-orders-art-galleries-to-remove-paintings-with-political-themes-david-barboza\/","title":{"rendered":"China Orders Art Galleries to Remove Paintings With Political Themes &#8211; David Barboza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nFrom the New York Times (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/05\/13\/arts\/design\/13cens.html?_r=1&oref=slogin\" target=\"_blank\">link<\/a>):\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/mt-old\/censo.190.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/censo.190.jpg','popup','width=190,height=199,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/mt-old\/censo.190-tm.jpg\" height=\"100\" width=\"95\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Censo.190\" \/><\/a>Several galleries in this city&#8217;s thriving arts district were recently ordered by government officials to remove more than 20 paintings, apparently because they dealt with political themes, artists and gallery directors here said.<\/p>\n<p>The works, some of which featured radical portrayals of Mao and references to the Tiananmen Square uprising in 1989, were taken down just before one of the city&#8217;s biggest art festivals, which opened on April 30.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A group of men came and ordered the workers to take it down,&#8221; said Huang Rui, an artist and arts organizer here who had one of his works removed. &#8220;We had to do it. 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