artistic freedom

(Newser) - Just before Dave Chappelle's most recent Netflix special dropped, his alma mater, the Duke Ellington School of the Arts in Washington, DC, announced its theater would be named for the comedian, who pledged to donate $100,000 to teachers' wages. It's "the most significant honor of my...

(Newser) - An Iranian actress has been sentenced to a year in jail and 90 lashes for participating in a film about artistic limitations in her nation. Marzieh Vafamehr was busted this summer after starring in My Tehran for Sale , which tells the story of an actress whose theater work is banned....

(Newser) - The head of the Smithsonian said he's now sorry he so quickly yanked a video from a museum exhibit featuring gay artists because of warnings by Republican Party leaders that it could trigger "budgetary consequences." It's "the most painful thing I've ever done," G. Wayne Clough...