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Originally Posted by RU OX Alum
although I disagree. I think that by taking him away from his work, just the timing of it, makes it seem like something was fishy about it. Like, if they acted as soon as he started, then I would agree that questioning him about wouldn't violate the first amendment, but the night before it opens when he was finishing work on it makes it seem to me (maybe not apparent to everyone, but I see it) as a [possible] attempt to keep the show from going, which would be censorship.
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I think you're seeing something that isn't there. They detained him the morning before the exhibit was to open, when the work he was finishing was to put the name of the exhibit on the windows. Until the guy started putting the name up, it seems relatively safe to assume that nobody knew much if anything about the exhibit -- even the landlord said he didn't know anything about the exhibit until it actually went up. Once he put the title on the windows, others could see his "assassination theme." The police and SS came when they heard about it -- pretty promptly, it appears -- to question him and make sure there wasn't anything more to it than art.
They didn't ask him to remove or close the exhibit. I just don't think there's more to it.
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