LOS ANGELES TIMES:

Kudos to columnist Patt Morrison for her timely reminder that art censorship has long been a tool of authoritarian government (“‘Degenerate’ or ‘woke,’ Paris museum exhibit shows what happens to art in the crosshairs of politics,” May 7). During the American culture wars in 1991, LACMA curator Stephanie Barron organized the first major exhibition about Nazi art policy, “‘Degenerate Art’: The Fate of the Avant-Garde in Nazi Germany.” Today, several intimate theaters are presenting anti-authoritarian plays in Los Angeles as part of Reflections on Art and Democracy. These local artists can afford to be bold because most of them don’t receive federal funding. Keep resisting, Los Angeles artists!

Tom Jacobson, Los Angeles