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Dat belooft wat voor Manifesta: ‘The Baibakov Art Projects blog reported that a screening of Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer—an HBO documentary about the group—has been canceled, after being scheduled this past Sunday at Moscow’s Gogol Center. According to a translation posted on Baibakov Art Projects blog’s, the center’s administrators received a letter from the department of culture which admonished, “The theater you lead is a state cultural institution . . . and is financed from the municipal budget. As director of such an institution, you should recognize your responsibility to your founders, as well as to your audience . . . . I hold the profound conviction that a state institution of culture should not be associated with the names of individuals who incite such mixed reactions and whose activities are aimed at provoking the wider public.” (via Artforum)