Warhol's Mao Portraits Banned From China Show

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Patricia Cohen, Warhol's Mao Portraits Banned From China Show. New York Times, Dec 25, 2012
("Eric Shiner, director of the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, said that when he heard last month that officials in the culture ministry had objected to displaying 10 Mao portraits, he asked them to reconsider. 'My argument was that in contemporary Chinese art today, using imigery of Mao is very common practice,' Mr Shiner said. 'But that did not sway or change the opinion'")

Note:
(a) The report cites
Frederik Balfour, Beijing Bans Warhol’s Mao Portraits from China Exhibition. Bloomberg, Dec 17, 2012.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/20 ... ina-exhibition.html
(b) There is no need to read the rest of the NYT report.
(c) Neither NYT nor Bloomberg reports supplies Beijing's officials reason(s), likely none was given.