A work by American artist Cameron Rowland was removed from the facade of the Palais de Tokyo in Paris after the museum said the piece, which involves replacing the French flag with the flag of Martinique, “could be considered illegal” under French law. The contemporary art museum determined that “Replacement” (2025), which comments on the colonization of Martinique, an “overseas region” of France in the Caribbean, could violate laws governing the public display of flags. A spokesperson for Palais de Tokyo told Hyperallergic that the museum had planned to include the work in the exhibition “ECHO DELAY REVERB: American Art, Francophone Thought” since the spring. Yet on September 18, they received a memorandum from the office of the French Secretary General of the Ministry of the Interior reiterating the “principle of neutrality” of the Conseil d’État, France’s highest administrative court, which prohibits the display on public buildings of “symbols representing the advocacy of political...