At The Milwaukee Avenue Arts Fest A Landlord Plays Censor To A Logan Square Artist S Work

Nothing makes an artwork more irresistible than censorship. Pull a painting off the wall because someone finds it intolerably offensive, and everyone else will lust to see it, immediately.

But the Internet’s not such a great way to see banned installation art.

Sell wasn’t there when a Fishman employee took her work down, stashed it in a plastic bag, and locked it in an adjacent empty space.

Sell says I AM Logan Square board chair Geary Yonker told her that Mark Fishman had threatened to close the space if her installation stayed, which would have meant that the group show wouldn’t be seen either. That’s not something she wanted to be responsible for, Sell says. So she retrieved her work and went home.

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