Word: cincinnati
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...most famous definition of pornography is still the eyeball test once offered by Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart: "I know it when I see it." A grand jury in Hamilton County, Ohio, figured they knew what they were seeing in Cincinnati's Contemporary Arts Center last April. Citing pictures that were part of a retrospective of photographer Robert Mapplethorpe's work, they brought criminal charges against the museum and its director, Dennis Barrie, for pandering obscenity...
...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...
Prosecutors may well get a jury to agree that some of the pictures by % Mapplethorpe, who died of AIDS last year, could offend people in Sodom, much less Cincinnati. The more complex question is whether such pictures can move people in other ways. The future of American art may depend on how the jury answers that...
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