{"id":41628,"date":"2011-04-04T14:02:05","date_gmt":"2011-04-04T18:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=41628"},"modified":"2017-02-23T13:19:56","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T18:19:56","slug":"mural-cycle-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2011\/04\/04\/mural-cycle-statement\/","title":{"rendered":"Bates, Colby and Bowdoin museum directors respond to removal of &#039;Maine Labor Mural Cycle&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bates College Museum of Art Director Dan Mills joins his counterparts at Bowdoin and Colby colleges in protest against the removal of the <em>Maine Labor Mural Cycle<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href='https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2011\/04\/views-dan_mills_7063fb.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"590\" height=\"393\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2011\/04\/views-dan_mills_7063fb.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large alignright\" alt=\"views-dan_mills_7063fb\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a statement issued April 4, Mills, Bowdoin&#8217;s Kevin Salatino and Colby&#8217;s Sharon Corwin write that the removal of the mural from the state Department of Labor office raises serious issues including &#8220;censorship, historical revisionism, and artists&#8217; rights.&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/x225788.xml\"><em>Read the museum directors<\/em>&#8216; <em>statement<\/em>.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p>In a related development, the Portland Museum of Art hosts a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmuseum.org\/Content\/5778.shtml?PHPSESSID=35b48fea1a6269fd9b783437391b9dfb\">public forum<\/a> on the mural removal. Co-sponsored by the three college museums and the Maine College of Art, <em>Whose Art Is It?<\/em> offers an opportunity to discuss the mural controversy and public art ownership at noon Friday, April 8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bates College Museum of Art Director Dan Mills joins his counterparts at Bowdoin and Colby colleges in protest against the removal of the Maine Labor Mural Cycle. In a statement issued April 4, Mills, Bowdoin&#8217;s Kevin Salatino and Colby&#8217;s Sharon Corwin write that the removal of the mural from the state Department of Labor office raises serious issues including &#8220;censorship, historical revisionism, and artists&#8217; rights.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1363,6889],"class_list":["post-41628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-batesnews","tag-bates-college-museum-of-art","tag-performing-and-visual-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41628"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86804,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41628\/revisions\/86804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}