Description of Incident: Councillor Venn called Scarfe's work "lavatory wall artistry" and convinced the Newport Art Gallery to remove the artist's work depicting Wilson.

Results of Incident: Scarfe has enjoyed a successful career as a political cartoonist since 1967 at The Sunday Times.

Description of Incident: After Adams submitted the lyrics, Carol Adams emailed him to say that eight of the lyrics would not be displayed. The gallery owners claim that the song lyrics have nothing to do with the paintings. Miller feels disrespected and censored. The gallery owners feel they have the right to reject paintings that they do not want to exhibit.

Results of Incident: The gallery exhibied Miller's painting accompanied by the approved lyrics in September of 2005. Miller decided to distribute copies of the eight songs not included in the exhibit outside the gallery.

Description of Incident: Husain first received much criticism after the "Bharatmata" became known to the public. Husain decided to withdraw the painting from the auction where the painting was up for sale and he made a public apology. Despite his apology, he is now facing censorship from the Government of India. Indian bureaucrats are refusing to allow the "Bharatmata" to be publicly displayed because they fear public outroar if the painting is exhibited.

Results of Incident: If the "Bharatmata" is displayed, Husain can face arrest.

Description of Incident: Despite the Chinese government's desire to develop the Dashanzi art district of Beijing, officials ordered at least three galleries to remove certain politically themed art works. This occurred after artists became more comfortable creating and displaying poltically motivated artworks.

Results of Incident: Currently the government is trying to develop the Dashanzi art district while still maintaining control.

Description of Incident: Before a Chinese movie can be screened outside of China, the move must be approved by the censorship committee of the Film Bureau. "Summer Palace" never received the necessary approval before it was screened at the Cannes Film Festival.

Results of Incident: As a result of the screening of the film, about fifty Chinese mediapersons left the festival. It is unknown what will happen with either the film or to Lou Ye and Fang Li once they return to China.

Description of Incident: Stuart's Opera House decided to cancel the "In Times of War" exhibit. The director of Stuart's Opera House had not prescreened the artwork included in the exhibit. However, once the director saw the artwork, he decided that the Opera House was not an appropriate location to show the work. The director said that the Opera House does notlike to exhibit political artwork. Before the director of the Opera House had seen the artwork, the coordinator of the exhibit had already eliminated several works depicting nudes because the Opera House preferred non-violent and non-graphic works. The director of the Opera House did not want to exhibit artworks that would be inappropriate for children to view. Similiar controversies surrounded the artwork at exhibits at the Dairy Barn Cultural Arts Center and at the Alden Library.

Results of Incident: As a result of the cancellation of the show, seven to ten people held a protest in Nelsonville. The protesters covered their mouths in tape claiming that the Opera House's action amounted to censorship.

Description of Incident: The Malaysian Home Ministry banned the film, despite the film's approval by the Censorship Board. Twenty Special Branch officers viewed the film and did not complain about its content. The Malaysian government decided to ban the film after facing various pressures. On various blogs, Malaysians are complaining about the government's ban of the film. These bloggers disagree with the government's actions because they claim that the government never saw the film and reject the government's argument that the public protested the film.

Results of Incident: Unknown

Description of Incident: Unger displayed her poem in Loeb's gallery as part of the Beekman Street Art District's celebration of National Poetry Month. Loeb decided to remove the poem after reading just the first line and because of the surprised reaction of her high school intern after reading it.

Results of Incident: The gallery owner removed the poem. The newspaper, The Saratogian, also refused to publish the poem because of its content.

Description of Incident: After receiving negative responses from community members and from other students, College of Southern Idaho officials decided to move all the nude paintings and sculptures to an off campus location.

Results of Incident: Some students claim this is an incident of censorship. Other students have deicded to show all their artwork, including non nude works, at the off campus location.

Description of Incident: The California State Teachers' Retirement System removed the four paintings after employees complained about the paintings' content. The California State Teachers' Retirement System stated that they would remove any artwork that made their employees uncomfortable as part of their zero tolerance policy for harassment.

Results of Incident: The California State Teachers' Retirement System removed the paintings. Mencher believes that when people look at the paintings they bring their own interpretation.

Description of Incident: After Bowden won second place in the Redwood Art Association's fall exhibit, Paul Bareis withdrew the $300 gift certificate he submitted for the winner. Bareis stated that the drawing was a form of hate speech. The Redwood Art Association did not display Bowden's drawing claiming that it was because of insurance problems. They stated that Bowden priced his drawing at $35,000 while the other 193 works totalled $142,485.

Results of Incident: An anonymous person donated $300 to replace the gift certificate.

Description of Incident: After the dedication, many members of the audience decided to leave, spilled their drinks, took down posters advertising the event and requested a refund of their money. Ronstadt was escorted out of the casino after her performance. The casino stated they hired Ronstadt to sing and not to express her political beliefs.

Results of Incident: The Aladdin stated that Ronstadt would not be invited back to perform at the hotel.

Description of Incident: Bozonnet decided to cancel Handke's play after Handke delivered a speech at Slobodan Milosevic's funeral in March of 2006. Bozonnet claims the cancellation of the play was not an act of censorship. Others, including Elfriede Jelinek, Austrian writer and Nobel Prize winner, disagree claiming that the cancellation of the play acted as a censor. Bozonnet first learned of Handke's participation in Milosevic's funeral from an article published in the French magazine, Nouvel Observateur. The magazine printed a statement including a letter written by Handke discussing factual discrepancies present in the original article. Bozzonet claims that his decision to cancel Handke's play what not based soley on the Nouvel Observateur article. The article firt allerted him to Handke's attendance and participation in Milosevic's funeral. He later read a German article that explained Handke's reasons for going to the funeral: to be "with Yugoslavia, with Serbia, with Slobodan Milosevic." Bozonnet also claimed that he confirmed that Milosevic was found guilty by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY); however, ICTY never found Milosevic guilty of genocide and ethnic cleansing.

Results of Incident: Unknown

Description of Incident: The Cultural Minister decided to ban Handagama's film from being shown after the film received approval from the Censor Board. The Cultural Minister said he would only approve the film if the sexually explicit scenes are removed. Many fear that freedom of expression would be threatened if the ban of the film is successful.

Results of Incident: Petition brought by Handagama to Sri Lankan Supreme Court.

Description of Incident: The artwork entitled, "Price of Arrogance," was part of the Saginaw Town Hall exhibit of "Art in Public Places." Saginaw Township officials removed the artwork after receiving complaints about its politically themed content. The artwork expressed the artist's negative opinions of President Bush and the war in Iraq.

Results of Incident: Saginaw Township created a committee to draft a new policy for its Art in Public Places exhibit to avoid a similar incident. Saginaw Township asked the ACLU to assist in creating the new policy.