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...Helms amendment, adopted by Congress in October and named for Sen. Jesse Helms (R-N.C.), requires that all NEA-funded projects meet federal obscenity guidelines. The amendment prohibits funding for works that depict "sadomasochism, homoeroticism, the sexual exploitation of children or individuals engaged in sex acts, and which, when taken as a whole, do not have serious literary, artistic, political or scientific merit...

Author: By Lan N. Nguyen, | Title: Music Prof Resigns From NEA Panel | 5/7/1990 | See Source »

...weren't popular, fewer people would worry about its impact. No one has mounted a campaign against Randy Newman's songs about racial and sexual bigotry, for example, because Newman's audience is relatively small and well educated. The artful photographs of Robert Mapplethorpe, some of which depict homosexual acts and sadomasochism, took a while to raise legal hackles because, after all, they were displayed in museums, where nice people have always looked at pictures of naked people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: X Rated | 5/7/1990 | See Source »

...individual creations will be arranged so that, when the mural is viewed from afar, the colored papers will depict a group of children...

Author: By Hillary K. Anger, | Title: Volunteers to Highlight Diversity | 4/9/1990 | See Source »

This may be boring, because who cares what a critic has to say anyway since they're all assholes, but as you finish browsing through these photos, which depict the life cycle of House production, you'll see that it is very important, too important to dismiss. A critic who doesn't ask himself after every show whether he has any business being a critic has no business being critic...

Author: By David M. Edelstein -, | Title: An Explanation of the Role of Student Reviewers on Campus | 3/23/1990 | See Source »

...artist. But he never fell into the ghastly Warhol ethos that gelded so many talents in the '80s. The show starts with early collages involving paper bags and window blinds, pale elegant things haunted by Jasper Johns. It proceeds through a prolix series of paintings from the '60s that depict the corner of an imaginary "ideal" and utterly banal room with no furniture in it, done in very close-valued colors that turn the image into a benign parody of Ad Reinhardt's black paintings. Odd little signs -- a blurt of pigment here, a "Have a Nice Day" face there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Zen And Perceptual Hiccups | 3/12/1990 | See Source »

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