#artistic-freedom

#artistic-freedom

Freedom can only be taken, at a price, and, for Francis Ford Coppola, the price of freedom to make the grand-scale political fantasy " Megalopolis " was a hundred and twenty million dollars, which he raised by selling off part of his winery. He'd been trying to make the movie for about thirty years. He finally got to shoot it in 2022 and 2023, when he was eighty-three.

More than 150 cultural organisations and, as of this writing, over 320 artists and cultural workers have signed a public statement affirming their "commit[ment] to resisting external pressures" and that they will "stand with fellow institutions facing political pressure". The statement was organised by the National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC) and the Vera List Center for Art and Politics (VLC) at the New School.

In 1973, Marina Abramovic debuted her first performance work, 'Rhythm 10,' where she thrust 10 sharp knives between her fingers, occasionally drawing blood.

Kehlmann's new historical novel reflects on the fragile nature of artistic expression under oppressive regimes, drawing parallels between the past and contemporary censorship.