Artists bypassed state censorship by screening banned films in churches

Evidence

“Ban By-passed: ‘Connection’ Film at Judson Church,” VV (10/18/62), 1; O’Doherty, “Art: Avant-Garde Revolt,” NYT (10/31/62), 41; Johnston, “The Artist in a Coca-Cola World,” VV (1/31/63), 7. — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 1731

Categorization

• XREF: Church as alternative venue for banned film resonates with the reader’s infrastructure/gentrification thesis: sacred space as rent-free or low-cost distribution channel that subsidized the avant-garde.