Word: ica
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...week ago I would have said no, but now I would say that maybe there is an informal blacklist," ICA director David A. Ross said...
Arthur Cohen, the ICA's marketing director, said the only piece of Kelley's art that people might consider offensive was a cartoonish drawing of a man defecating. Kelley's drawings also include depictions of disembodied sexual organs...
...wonderful documentary accompanying the show at the ICA, one critic noted, "People think nothing of a female nude. Robert photographed male genitalia just like he photographed anything else...
...this unique value comes to the common public only through controversy. As a friend of Mapplethorpe once said, "One man's celebration is another man's decadence." Admittedly, Mapplethorpe's works would have drawn crowds even without the "XYZ" controversy. But the throngs lined up inside and outside the ICA are drawn there by curiousity over a fiercely debated and publicized affair, involving issues of sexuality and expression, involving rallying and standard-bearing...
...only objectionable experience on my visit to the Mapplethorpe exhibit at the Boston ICA was the piece of red paper stuck on the windshield of my mode of transport that I found upon returning from a three-hour feast of pure visual exhilaration. It seems that in situations like the Mapplethorpe fiasco, everybody has to pay some price...