A portrait of Palestinian-American scholar Edward Said was included in ICA's exhibit highlighting the work of artist Charles Gaines — then, one day, it was removed.
Miami Dade College Museum Accused of Censoring Forensic Architecture Exhibition
. The Florida museum is additionally alleged to have failed to renew the contract of the exhibition’s curator, Sophie Landres, as a punitive measure.
The controversy centers around Forensic Architecture’s stated goal of investigating, as part of its exhibition, the Homestead Emergency Care Shelter, a detention center for migrant children that is forty miles from the museum. Until August 2019, the federally funded for-profit private facility received $1 million daily to house the children, and had been called out in federal court for its cacophonous and crowded conditions. FA’s intended investigation was consistent with its oeuvre, which involves the investigation of possible human rights violations and similar events through 3D renderings of structures and streetscapes.