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...cover of the exhibition catalogue, embodies this trend. Yet the media buzz prior to the opening of the Biennial was not about Aitken or other noteworthy Biennial participants, but about "Sanitation." Haacke's piece has caused a virtual spectacle that has grown to involve New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, the Whitney Museum and the artist himself. Late last year, Giuliani cut the Brooklyn Museum's funding because it decided to show, as part of an exhibit called Sensation, Chris Ofili's controversial painting of the Virgin Mary smeared with elephant dung and speckled with pornography. "Sanitation" champions artistic expression...
...Never mind that Sensation had been shown two years ago in England to no controversy and that this kind of discourse on the First Amendment should have been resolved before the turn of the last century. The main source of the fuss is that "Sanitation" displays the quotations from Giuliani and company in Gothic Fraktur font, a typeface often associated with the Nazis. The mayor has therefore accused Haacke of portraying him as a Nazi and concurrently trivializing the Holocaust. Objectively, Gothic Fraktur is more of a nationalistic font than a Nazi one. It is based on medieval German designs...
While considering Brinkley's thought, my eye wandered to the front page of Thursday's New York Times. There, splashed across three prominent columns in prime acreage above the fold, the Times presented this story: "GIULIANI TO SEEK SEPARATION FROM WIFE OF 16 YEARS: Tearful Hanover Says She Tried to Keep the Couple Together." Above the story ran two closeup color pictures, big as TV screens - one of New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani (looking ashen and hyperstressed, his face cropped tight from combover to chin, with a quote for a caption: "We've grown independent, we've grown more separate...
...Giuliani is not even running for president. I thought to myself: This is surely a small, defining moment in the evolution of the New York Times. Normally "the newspaper of record" reserves that central plot of the front page for news of some seriousness and prestige - a war, a merger of corporate giants, Alan Greenspan's blood pressure. But here, in the space set aside for Big History, was the story of Rudy's domestic untidiness - all strictly tabloid, from the pix to the quotes to the heds...
...other hand, who is to say that the story of Giuliani's imploded marriage (coming on top of the recent news of his prostate cancer and of the woman friend he has been seeing behind his wife's back) does not fit the definition of "All the News That's Fit to Print?" As Proudhon remarked, "The fecundity of the unexpected far exceeds the prudence of statesmen." Suddenly a bumper crop of The Unexpected (including disclosure that New York's Roundhead moralist had been committing adultery) had turned Giuliani's bracing Senate race-to-the-death against Hillary Clinton into...