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...antirock protests through the years, from crowds burning Beatles records to police protesting rapper Ice-T's lyrics. Barrie is a passionate advocate of freedom of expression--he successfully fought an obscenity charge brought against a 1990 exhibit of Robert Mapplethorpe's photos at the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, Ohio, when he was director there--and he says he wants to keep his new institution on the cutting edge: "We are a museum with attitude...
...attention, but with all the social problems in America that the government hasn't figured out how to solve--gang violence, drugs, welfare, unemployment--the last thing the feds should be doing is snooping in people's living rooms to see what's on their hard drives. MARK HARRIS Cincinnati, Ohio Via America Online...
...pictures. Cited as a pivotal figure in elevating photography's status as an art, he seemed less concerned with placing his images in museums than in overseeing the opening-night guest lists. Yet it was oddly appropriate that Mapplethorpe became a posthumous symbol of artistic freedom in 1990, when Cincinnati's Contemporary Arts Center was prosecuted on obscenity charges for showing his photographs. While Mapplethorpe probably could not recite the First Amendment, his work was an extreme form of self-expression meant to shock people into seeing his dark world in a new light...
Murphy, fresh off five successful seasons at the helm of Division I-A University of Cincinnati, never imagined that Joe Restic's sinking ship would become buoyant again in one season. But alumnae and students were quick to buy the Murphy Messiah metaphor and expected immediate returns...
...Cincinnati 4, Houston...