So, Tyburczy is reclaiming the cultural space for these artists with The Leslie Lohman Museum’s latest exhibition, Irreverent: A Celebration of Censorship, which looks at three decades of censored artwork from around the globe. Yet for decades public outcry and the occasional act of vandalism have forced the world’s largest and smallest cultural institutions to remove works of art from inside their hallowed halls-all because their sexualized content or the socio-cultural beliefs of the artist created a momentary blip of controversy.
