Word: museum
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Many former co-chairs have also returned to see how EWC has changed, and there is a breakfast planned for the returning co-chairs to meet the skaters over donated Dunkin' Donuts. Tours of the Boston Aquarium and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum have also been organized for this special weekend...
Since the discussion, which centers around a proposed art museum on the site currently occupied by Mahoney's Garden Center, is at its very earliest stages, it is unclear whether student groups or the ART would move. What is most important is that the lack of adequate student performance spaces is being taken into consideration...
Should that speck of elephant dung be moved up or down on the Holy Mother's breast? To the left or right of that pornographic snippet in the background? These are the kind of questions New Yorkers got to ask starting Oct. 2, when the Brooklyn Museum of Art opened the exhibit "Sensation" to the public...
Free speech will be at the core of the debate, since the museum filed its suit against the city on First Amendment grounds. But it shouldn't be. The First Amendment is indeed about the right of expression. But it is not about any chimerical right to have others subsidize that expression. As long as we keep this crucial distinction in mind, there should be no problem with the government insisting on certain criteria as a precondition of funding--those who find the stipulations stifling can seek money elsewhere and leave the matter at that...
Close down the museum for a single painting? This is another one to look at. Visitors to "Sensation" might want to start their viewing by stopping first in front of Cole's bright image. And coming back...