Word: nudes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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None of this is new; recent history is rife with bloody battles waged over 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...
...will they stay if Hillary fails to win a Senate seat from New York next year? Will the daily parade of cars ever stop? Has the Secret Service bugged our phones? Would we know an international spy if we saw one? Does that omnipresent helicopter mean the end of nude sunbathing? Most important: What will happen to property values...
...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...
...playing a drug- and alcohol-abusing pornography hound, Estevez says, "Charlie had to go down some dark roads. I realized it could be dangerous, but in fact it was cathartic." Asked how he felt playing a pornography hound, Estevez replies, "You become totally desensitized to the fact that a nude woman is standing in front of you. I didn't expect that...
...Growth in membership of the American Association for Nude Recreation (AANR) since...