Tuesday, March 17, 2026
UNT Dean Cites Politics As Reason Behind Canceled Victor Quiñonez Show
www.artnews.com: The decision to cancel a solo exhibition featuring anti-ICE art at the University of North Texas art school was an “institutional directive,” Dean Karen Hutzel said in newly leaked transcripts of a faculty meeting. First reported by the Denton Record-Chronicle, the transcripts show Hutzel declining to identify the directive’s source while warning colleagues to expect a “media storm.”
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Nothing will change if nothing changes. We aren't going to stop seeing this violence in our communities if we don't do something about it and maybe that is just literally displaying someone's art about their experience at a gallery. Obviously, just displaying someone's art is not going to change the whole world but why comply in advance? Right now there's so many things happening and across the US, places and companies and people are complying in advance before anything even happens. People are banning trans health care, excluding Latino art from galleries, etc, etc. What are you even doing if you can't even handle waiting until you get the request to change your behavior? Whether or not you decide to comply when you are asked to is a different thing. You might or a company might choose not to comply with fascism. But complying in advance is just disgusting. What are we doing?
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