Pepperdine University, a private Christian college in Malibu, has closed an exhibition ahead of schedule following requests from at least a dozen artists to withdraw from the show. This comes as a response to the school's removal or alteration of art it considered “political.” The exhibition opened on September 6 and was slated to run until March 29, 2026. But on October 1, Elana Mann, one of the artists in the show, was informed by the show’s curator that her video, “Call to Arms 2015-2025” (2025), had been turned off at the university’s request. The video includes footage of the 2017 May Day March in Los Angeles, during which participants chant phrases like “No Justice, No Peace” and “Say it Loud, Say it Clear, Immigrants are Welcome Here.” School administrators also took issue with an embroidery that read “Save the Children” and “Abolish ICE,” part of “Con Nuestros Manos Construimos Deidades (With Our Hands We Build Deities)” (2023), a large collaborative sculpture by the group ...