# @hyperallergic on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2025-10-12T17:12:07.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Hyperallergic (@hyperallergic) — https://gondola.cc/hyperallergic

## Caption

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 Art Made Between Opposite Sides (AMBOS).

In response to the school’s actions, Mann and AMBOS requested that their works be withdrawn from the show. In the past week, several artists in the show requested that their work also be removed or covered in solidarity with Mann and AMBOS, and as a gesture of protest against the school’s actions.

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Installation view of AMBOS’s work (photo by Paul Salveson, courtesy Weisman Museum)

#California #PepperdineUniversity #Censorship #Immigration #PoliticalArt

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