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...forced Washington's Corcoran Gallery of Art to cancel it. Well in advance of its April 7 opening in Cincinnati, Citizens for Community Values, a powerful and well-funded 16,000-member organization, sponsored full-page ads in local papers and a massive letter-writing campaign. "We think the exhibit is irresponsible, and we think ((the arts center)) should be accountable," says Monty Lobb Jr., president of Citizens for Community Values. "The gallery is open to the public; it's on public land and receives taxpayers' money." As a result of the pressure, the chairman of the gallery's board...
...city is hardly unique. Says Alfred Tuchfarber, a University of Cincinnati pollster: "Hamilton County tracks the nation perfectly on major social and moral issues." A poll released Friday by the Cincinnati Post and Tuchfarber's Institute for Policy Research showed that 58.9% of those questioned thought the Mapplethorpe exhibit should be allowed. Only 38.4% felt it should...
Certainly the brouhaha did not hurt attendance at the exhibit. It drew 4,000 people on opening day and more than 20,000 in its first week, despite a 30- to 45-minute wait to see the notorious XYZ collection of explicit photos of gay sex acts. If the current pace keeps up -- and it shows no sign of slackening -- the display will easily break the record of 29,000 viewers set by a computer-art exhibit in 1987. After Barrie was indicted, a federal judge ruled that law-enforcement officials could not interfere with the exhibit until the gallery...
...exhibit is not limited to oil paintings--it also contains very compelling pieces that use mixed media and texturing techniques...
This is Triptych's third exhibit this term. Organizers, John Goldstone and Taran Davies, plan two more shows before Commencement. The gallery, which normally presents two to three exhibits a semester, has had an active term, Goldstone says...