Description of Incident: Painters Nguyen Kim Dinh and Phan Van Thuy planned to organize a joint exhibition on April 10, introducing 12 paintings by Phan Van Thuy and 12 nude paintings by Nguyen Kim Dinh. Their works were examined and approved by the Art Association of Thua Thien-Hue province before they were submitted to the Hue City Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism for licensing. The department refused to license his nude paintings and notified the artist 2 days before the exhibition was to be shown to the public.

Results of Incident: Phan Van Thuy was able to keep his paintings up but Nguyen Kim Dinh was forced to remove his paintings from the exhibit.

Description of Incident: The West Midlands police sandblasted the mural from Sergeant orders and after also receiving permission from building owner. It was removed "for fear it would trigger racial violence." According to the DailyMail, "the decision was taken to remove the image following a 'risk assessment' they had carried out."

Results of Incident: Ali met with police staff to discuss the removal.

Description of Incident: Entropa, commissioned by the Czech Republic to adorn EU headquarters in Brussels, has caused a sensation, and some embarrassment, across Europe. The work lampoons stereotypes of the EU's 27 members - David Cerny's depiction of Bulgaria was that of several squat toilets. Bulgaria issued a formal protest.

Results of Incident: The Czech government and the artist apologized and shrouded the artwork in a black sheet. The artwork is expected to remain on show in the lobby of the European Council building until July - for the duration of the Czech EU presidency.

Description of Incident: Earlier this month, photographer Nicole Boenig McGrade submitted her picture, "Kids in Suburbia," for an exhibition at the Subiaco Library in Perth. Concerned that the photo might prompt complaints, the exhibition organizer suggested it be left out and Boenig McGrade agreed.

Results of Incident: The photo was taken out of the exhibit.

Description of Incident: The Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art will go to court in September to face charges of offending public decency. The gallery is being sued by Emily Mapfuwa, a citizen outraged by an artwork in the gallery's September 2007  January 2008 Terence Koh exhibition, "Gone, Yet Still."

Results of Incident: Court case scheduled September 23 2008.

Description of Incident: Neighbors complained, even threatened violence, about the photograph which was on display in the window. The organization covered the nudity in the photo, to which the artist objected.

Results of Incident: The artist removed the photo and later agreed to return the photo for display in a less visible area.

Description of Incident: Student curators who requested the removal of the mandala said to Lujan in an email that they, "'love your installation' but were 'wondering if the wall mandala is absolutely necessary and if you would be open to taking it down? We've received a lot of questions about it and I am afraid it is being misread by the public.'" Also, the "curators were misled by the fact that in her proposal Lujan described this part of the work as a 'velvet painting' and that the proposal materials did not make clear what the finished installation would look like or 'it would have been dealt with before.'" The curators did not say the piece resembled a swastika, but Russell Ferguson, chairman of the UCLA art department, did confirm that the decision to remove the piece was because of the resemblance. The curators removed the velvet mandala piece before receiving approval by Lujan, but left the remaining art structure in the exhibit.

Results of Incident: The piece was removed for the exhibit. Lujan would like another opportunity to exhibit her piece in its entirety.

Description of Incident: The artists were called to the arts centre by members of Harrow Arts Society, who had been instructed by council officers to remove the explicit paintings.

The decision was taken because the arts centre is a public building, not exclusively an art gallery, and there were fears children and religious groups would be offended.

Results of Incident: Jonathan Hutchins decided to replace his paintings in the exhibition, but Cheryl Gould and her partner Roy Rogers, a former president of the art society who was also exhibiting, pulled out in protest.

Description of Incident: The Executive Director of West End BIZ, Gloria Cardwell-Hoeppner, admitted to ordering a local artist to remove an image of a man who resembled Karl Marx from the final design of a public mural that the association commissioned. She remarked that the BIZ's original intention was to commission a mural that depicted the social climate and history of that period in Winnipeg, rather than the political history. The artist complied and the image of the Marx-looking man was removed from the mural.

Results of Incident: Passerby have expressed some disappointment and the mural is the subject of a local internet blog. However, no action is being taken.

Description of Incident: Erika Risko's work, "Martyrdom," was exhibited at Moore College of Art & Design in Philadelphia without incident. The piece also showed in a student exhibit in Washington, D.C. called "Early Look," without complaint. Mayer's Fine Art Gallery chose to display "Early Look" in Norfolk, including Risko's work. Building management complained that the nude, female breasts depicted in the work were offensive and the piece should be removed from exhibit.

Results of Incident: Instead of removing "Martyrdom," the gallery owner decided to cover the breasts, in an effort to make the building management's demand look foolish. There is also talk of plans to ask guests to design "tasteless" pasties which will be rotated over "Martyrdom's" breasts for the rest of the month.

Description of Incident: Without explanation, the local government cancelled the exhibit that was sheduled to be shown at the Shanghai Art Museum. Sources close to the incident claim that government officials were disturbed by "Giant 1" and "Giant 2."

Results of Incident: The same sources maintain that officials are still in negotiations and they are hoping that the exhibit can be rescheduled for next month. This would be exciting, as Mr. Zhang used to be blacklisted in China.

Description of Incident: Chinese government officials made the two art gallerys postpone the openings of the exhibits, because they did not feel that attention to Western art was appropriated during a monumental event in China, like the Olympic Games. Also, they were uncomfortable with the depictions of the Dalai Lama and Jiang Zemin by Ma, because they are highly politicized figures.

Results of Incident: The galleries are complying with the government's orders. No further action is reported.

Description of Incident: After its release in 1975, the film was banned in Australia until 1993, when it was released in a limited fashion. The ban was reinstated in 1997. Recently, Shock Entertainment obtained the rights and applied to the Office of Film and Literature Classifaction (OFLC) for a rating, so that the company could distribute the film on DVD. The board of 13 voted against the application, 7-6.

Results of Incident: Many in the Australian arts and film community have voiced outrage that the OFLC would deny Australians the right to make the choice to view Salo in the privacy of their own homes. Freedom of speech group "Watch on Censorship" has publicly stated that they are unhappy with the decision and that the film is a tightly constructed, narrative piece with high artistic value. The OFLC's decision stands at the moment.

Description of Incident: The artists agreed to display their works in an exhibit called "00 Zealot," to be shown in a clothing store located in Sunland Park Mall. Ten days after the exhibit opened, mall management demanded that Zamora and Rust remove their paintings, because the mall received complaints from customers that the paintings were "offensive." There was no written contract, but a verbal agreement between the artists, the store owner and mall management.

Results of Incident: All parties agree that the art is good. However, mall mangement has said it takes the complaints of customers very seriously and the decision to remove the works stands. The artists' First Amendment rights have not been violated, because the mall is private property. So, the owners retain the right to decide what is displayed there.