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Most visitors to Mapplethorpe's controversial "The Perfect Moment" arrive eager to discover for themselves exactly what sort of art manages to get Jesse Helms so uptight. In this instance, they usually leave with the perception that it does not take much. Helms' charges that the pictures are pornographic can...
Souter's conservative philosophy alternately pleases and confuses both ends of the political spectrum and is a reminder that the label does not belong only to Jerry Falwell and Jesse Helms. Elizabeth Hager, who led the state's successful 1972 fight to pass an equal-rights amendment, points out that...
If that void should ever become vacant, lots of candidates are waiting to fill it. "You can't take the New Kids and make a clone," warns Capitol Industries-EMI president Joe Smith. But Starr and Scott are way ahead of him. Starr's 12-year-old son is opening...
JUST BECAUSE the definition of obscenity is so vague, if it can be defined at all, promising not to be obscene is absolutely useless. The art world probably would benefit more if artists were forced to sign pledges promising not to be boring, rather than not to be obscene. The...
In any case, no one who applies for NEA grants plans to be obscene. The late Robert Mapplethorpe--whose homoerotic photographs put Helms on the warpath in the first place--surely did not consider his pictures obscene, or gross, or even mildly icky.