Word: censornati
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Cincinnati has made a name for itself as a porn-busting town: Censornati. There is not a single X-rated theater, topless bar or massage parlor inside the city limits. That is small comfort to museum directors elsewhere, who fear they could be next. Some plan to testify as expert witnesses, hoping to persuade the jury that pictures may resemble porn but also affect the viewer in the more complex manner of art. "These photographs are not meant to titillate," says Arnold Lehman, president of the Association of Art Museum Directors. "They don't have that vacuous anonymity that pornography...
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