Postponement of Soviet-era exhibition not about "censorship" says Cooper Union
New York's Cooper Union has defended its decision to postpone its Vkhutemas: Laboratory of the Avant-Garde exhibition following a controversial opinion article, which claimed it was inappropriate due to Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine.
Focused on the work of the Vkhutemas design school in the former Soviet Union, the exhibition was scheduled to open at the end of January.
However, the exhibition was postponed following an uproar generated by an opinion piece on the website Archinect written by New York University historian Peder Anker, which suggested the exhibition could make Russia "more appealing to the architectural community and New Yorkers".
According to Cooper Union architecture dean Hayley Eber, the debate surrounding the article led to the decision to postpone the exhibition, despite the institution taking issue with a number of claims in the piece, which have since been retracted by Archinect. "The op-ed that ran the weekend before the exhibition's opening made serious allegations and created the impression the exhibition was an implicit endorsement of Russian policies today," Eber told Dezeen.
"The opinion piece, which was not fact-checked and has since been significantly amended, sparked concerns and continuing dialogue at Cooper, within our community, and the field at large."
"This topic is very much worthy of debate"
Cooper Union was not alone in taking issue with the opinion article. The piece received a large nu...
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