More Than 1,000 Artists Boycott Bristol’s Arnolfini Center Amid Palestine Censorship Controversy
about 5 months ago (12/14/2023)
Amid Palestine Controversy, Artists Boycott Bristol’s Arnolfini – ARTnews.com Skip to main content By Tessa Solomon Plus Icon Tessa Solomon Reporter, ARTnews View All December 14, 2023 2:22pm People queue in the rain outside the Bristol Arnolfini art center in 2013. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images) More than 1,000 artists across the cultural field—including Ben Rivers, Brian Eno, Adham Faramawy, and Tai Shani—have signed a new open letter that accuses Bristol’s Arnolfini International Centre for Contemporary Arts of “censorship of Palestinian culture,” after the institution canceled two events that were part of the city’s Palestine Film Festival. The signatories vow to no longer work with the Arnolfini or engage with its events and urge their peers in the field to join the boycott.