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V&A Performance Festival 2018
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Objects of Censorship
As part of the V&A Performance Festival 2018, discover objects which tell stories of censorship with curators across the Museum
This series of gallery talks looks in detail at objects in the collection that respond to or are informed by acts of censorship
Monday 23 April: Killing the Message: Censorship’s power to dilute and confuse
Led by Dawn Hoskin
Tuesday 24 April: Sacred and Secret: Catholic worship in England after the Reformation
Led by Alexandra Jones
Wednesday 25 April: Umbrellas as resistance: Protest and youth ambition
Led by Alice Power
Thursday 26 April: Michelangelo’s David: Indecency and the fig leaf
Led by Livia Turnbull
Friday 27 April: Rodin’s ‘Fantasies’: The censorship of same-sex desire as mythology in the 19th century
Led by Rebecca Knott
Duration of each talk: 20 minutes
Part of the V&A Performance Festival 2018
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