ART

Banned in Boston: A film series titled “Uprising: Film and Video of the Palestinian Resistance” has been withdrawn at Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art, the same institution that was in hot water last summer for an exhibit of photography by the late Robert Mapplethorpe. Pressure came from ICA board member and state Democratic Party Chairman Stephen Grossman, who was backed by the Jewish Anti-Defamation League. Grossman had demanded that Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz be invited to speak and add “balance” to the Palestinian point of view. Civil libertarians and artists’ groups condemned the ICA’s acquiescence to outside pressure and labeled the affair a form of subtle censorship.