Word: finley
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...been here before, so the next act was familiar: museum defenders indignantly cited the First Amendment. Performance artist and freedom-of-expression activist Karen Finley, whose art career now seems secondary to her talk-show shouting, went on CNN to lament censorship. And the Brooklyn Museum of Art--which vowed to go on with the exhibition, damn the consequences--was soaked in publicity, creating the sensation it had hoped for. All before most New Yorkers have actually seen...
...governmental standard-setting in the realm of publicly funded art. Staid Cincinnati erupted over Robert Mapplethorpe?s photographs of nude men and children. Then there was Andres Serrano (a graduate, incidentally, of the Brooklyn Museum art school) and his "Piss Christ." And who could forget the chocolate-smeared Karen Finley? The terms of the debate are familiar: Does government funding place ultimate discretionary power in the hands of public officials, or does the First Amendment guarantee freedom of expression for all artists, in all venues? Proponents of the former stance argue, like Giuliani, that "if someone wants to show...
...Whitney Museum of American Art canceled the Great American Nude show, which had an installation by performance artist Karen Finley, below. The decision came days after the Supreme Court ruled against Finley, saying federal arts funding could be withheld on decency grounds. The Whitney cited "lack of funding." The show is now at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary...
...John Finley Fellowship in some ways forced Manasantivongs' hand, prompting his deferral when he might have headed straight to graduate school. However, for most the decision to defer must be weighed against other options--including postponing the application process itself...
According to Dwight D. Miller, admissions officer and tutor in Eliot House for 30 years, "Master Finley [of Eliot House] and Master Perkins [of Lowell House] were famous for their interviews. They were the antithesis of randomization." Eliot and Lowell rapidly became the homes of the elite with a few "commoners" sprinkled in. In those days, students could pick their freshman roommates and many prep-school students and New York upper-crust chose to live together. They flocked to Eliot and Lowell in groups which were, says Miller, "pretty exclusively St. Grottlesex...