{"id":33864,"date":"2012-03-12T13:36:16","date_gmt":"2012-03-12T13:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=33864"},"modified":"2012-03-12T14:30:52","modified_gmt":"2012-03-12T14:30:52","slug":"kuwait-art-exhibition-shut-down-for-controversial-content","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=33864","title":{"rendered":"Kuwait: Art exhibition shut down for \u201ccontroversial\u201d content"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An art exhibition in <a title=\"Index on Censorship: Kuwait\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/Kuwait\" target=\"_blank\">Kuwait<\/a> has been <a title=\"Global Voices: Kuwait: Art Exhibition Shut Down for \u201cControversial\u201d Content\" href=\"http:\/\/globalvoicesonline.org\/2012\/03\/11\/kuwait-art-exhibition-shut-down-for-controversial-content\/\" target=\"_blank\">shut down<\/a>\u00a0three hours after opening. A group of men entered the exhibition of a collection of paintings from\u00a0Kuwaiti artist Shurooq Amin, and removed the paintings, \u00a0claiming they had received a complaint over their content. Amin told\u00a0<a title=\"AlQabas: Sunrise Amin did not understand my paintings ..\" href=\"http:\/\/www.alqabas.com.kw\/Article.aspx?id=776470+&amp;date=07032012\" target=\"_blank\">Al-Qabas<\/a> newspaper that those who closed down the show misinterpreted the meaning of the paintings to be\u00a0disrespectful of the society&#8217;s tradition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An art exhibition in Kuwait has been shut down\u00a0three hours after opening. A group of men entered the exhibition of a collection of paintings from\u00a0Kuwaiti artist Shurooq Amin, and removed the paintings, \u00a0claiming they had received a complaint over their content. Amin told\u00a0Al-Qabas newspaper that those who closed down the show misinterpreted the meaning of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[584,4060,585],"tags":[102,103,346,1958,4403],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33864"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33864"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33884,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33864\/revisions\/33884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}