BARUCH COLLEGE — An exhibition at the UrbanGlass studio in Brooklyn was forced to be canceled after the studio excluded one of their staff members’ artworks for containing a pro-Palestine slogan, leading most of the participating artists to pull out their artwork in solidarity. Phil Garip had been a neon technician at UrbanGlass for four years and was given little information on the board’s decision to exclude his artwork from the exhibition.
The only reasoning he was given was that the slogan on his neon sign, “from the river to the sea,” made some board members feel “threatened.”
Artists Pull Out from Exhibition after Pro-Palestine Artwork Excluded
