Medical school removes portraits of ‘old, white’ former deans in name of ‘diversity’ | Dalhousie University Medical School | 08/03/2024 | Painting | No | Canceled |
University may remove historic mural accused of glorifying colonialism | University of Alberta | 07/27/2024 | Painting | No | Protested |
Medical school removes portraits of ‘old, white’ former deans in name of ‘diversity’ | Dalhousie University Medical School | 07/15/2024 | Painting | No | Canceled |
College removes 18th century painting ‘over fears it would offend students’ | University of Oxford Oriel College | 04/20/2024 | Painting | No | Canceled |
Portrait of Lord Balfour at Cambridge destroyed by pro-Palestinian activists | Cambridge University | 03/08/2024 | Painting | No | Canceled |
University cancels art exhibit featuring Palestinian artist | Indiana University | 01/19/2024 | Painting | No | Canceled |
Med school removes photos of white male alumni to show commitment to diversity | Texas A&M University | 01/18/2023 | Painting | No | Canceled |
West Point begins removing Confederate symbols, including Robert E. Lee portrait, from campus display | U.S. Military Academy at West Point | 12/27/2022 | Painting | Yes | Canceled |
U. of Kentucky to remove mural depicting slaves following unrelated racial incident | University of Kentucky | 12/19/2022 | Painting | Yes | Canceled |
Painting of old white men smoking cigars taken down after female scholar complains | Leiden University | 11/17/2022 | Painting | No | Canceled |
Princeton cancels Jewish-American artists exhibit due to links to the Confederacy | Princeton University | 03/29/2022 | Painting | Yes | Canceled |
Harvard, concerned over visuals that center ‘white men,’ plans racial justice redesign | Harvard University | 12/07/2021 | Painting | No | Protested |
Gonzaga removes photo of white student dressed as Native American from public gallery | Gonzaga University | 12/06/2021 | Painting | No | Canceled |
University to keep WWII-era murals with white people it scheduled for demolition, but add 'context' | University of Rhode Island | 07/07/2021 | Painting | No | Protested |
Queen Elizabeth's portrait removed from Oxford University due to 'colonialism' concerns | Oxford University | 06/09/2021 | Painting | No | Canceled |
Three Peoples murals to be covered after decades of controversy | University of New Mexico | 05/16/2021 | Painting | No | Canceled |
Elon Law students push university to remove portrait of former Greensboro mayor | Elon University | 03/03/2021 | Painting | No | Protested |
Law school defends its right to remove mural depicting slaves being freed | Vermont Law School | 02/12/2021 | Painting | No | Canceled |
Christopher Columbus murals covered with Native American tapestries at Notre Dame | University of Notre Dame | 11/12/2020 | Painting | No | Canceled |
Citing Black Lives Matter, photos of retired white male professors to be taken down at U. Oklahoma | University of Oklahoma | 08/26/2020 | Painting | No | Canceled |
Citing antiracism, University of Oregon to cover up controversial murals in campus library | University of Oregon | 08/25/2020 | Painting | No | Canceled |
College administrator reportedly censored internment campus artwork due to ‘liability’ issues | Bellevue College | 04/21/2020 | Painting | No | Canceled |
Pro-Hong Kong art display removed after Chinese students complain | University of Missouri Kansas City | 11/16/2019 | Painting | No | Canceled |
Murals to be removed because they lack 'people of color' | Tufts University | 07/11/2019 | Painting | No | Canceled |
Prominent university president's portrait is removed from dorm to create safe space | Harvard University | 03/26/2019 | Painting | No | Canceled |
Mitch McConnell, Elaine Chao gallery protested: makes students feel ‘unwelcomed, uncomfortable’ | University of Louisville | 03/21/2019 | Painting | No | Protested |
Cal State Maritime faces backlash over plan to erase training ship murals | California State University Maritime | 03/01/2019 | Painting | No | Protested |
Anti-Confederate art display closed due to backlash | Mary Baldwin University | 11/15/2018 | Painting | Yes | Canceled |
For third year in a row, College Republican mural is vandalized | University of Minnesota | 10/14/2018 | Painting | No | Protested |
Dartmouth to move racially insensitive murals off campus | Dartmouth College | 09/26/2018 | Painting | No | Canceled |
Rudyard Kipling poem painted over by students with Maya Angelou poem | University of Manchester | 07/21/2018 | Painting | No | Canceled |
University removes artist's work over claims of sexual misconduct with his subjects | Seattle University | 01/29/2018 | Painting | No | Canceled |
German university removes 'sexist' poem display after student complaints | Alice Salomon University | 01/25/2018 | Painting | No | Canceled |
Yale removes white men’s portraits from hall to promote diversity | Yale University | 11/09/2017 | Painting | No | Canceled |
Indiana U. rejects calls to remove mural with KKK image, says it represents history, warts and all | Indiana University | 09/01/2017 | Painting | Yes | Protested |
UGA group removes portrait of Robert E. Lee | University of Georgia | 08/25/2017 | Painting | Yes | Canceled |
English school to replace portraits of its founders with diversity wall | Kings College London | 07/17/2017 | Painting | No | Canceled |
University replaces Shakespeare portrait with collage of 88 diverse creators | University of Pennsylvania | 12/23/2016 | Painting | No | Canceled |
Anti-Trump art exhibit canceled when activists were offended | Salem State University | 11/29/2016 | Painting | No | Canceled |
Student complaint to ‘Hate Response Team’: Harry Potter mural represents ‘white, cis, man power’ | University of Wisconsin La Crosse | 09/24/2016 | Painting | No | Protested |
UW-Stout’s frontier paintings – deemed ‘harmful’ – now slated for ‘controlled’ campus rooms | University of Wisconsin Stout | 08/06/2016 | Painting | No | Canceled |
Princeton removes Woodrow Wilson photo from dining hall wall | Princeton University | 04/27/2016 | Painting | No | Canceled |
One student calls mural of gun shooting flowers 'emotionally triggering’ — artist paints over it | Pitzer College | 04/25/2016 | Painting | No | Canceled |
University removes portrait of Leonidas Polk 'Sword over the Gown' portrait from Convocation Hall | Sewanee: The University of the South | 03/22/2016 | Painting | Yes | Canceled |
Paintings of John C. Calhoun to be taken down from college named after him | Yale University | 01/23/2016 | Painting | Yes | Canceled |
College removes Cecil Rhodes portrait over concerns of 'colonialism' | University of Oxford Oriel College | 12/19/2015 | Painting | No | Canceled |
Marquette removes mural with quotes from convicted cop killer | Marquette University | 05/18/2015 | Painting | No | Canceled |
Animal rights activist attacks university’s deer skin exhibit as ‘work of terrorists’ | Syracuse University | 10/20/2014 | Painting | No | Protested |
Art school rejects demands to censor ‘Dolphin Rape’ photo as ‘triggering’ | New York School of Visual Arts | 09/24/2014 | Painting | No | Protested |
Military school debates removing portraits of Confederate generals | U.S. Army War College | 12/23/2013 | Painting | Yes | Protested |