Word: wolfs
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Dudley House is not an art gallery. Nor is it the right of Cameron Wolf, or any other Harvard-affiliated "artist," to display his work there. Censorship would imply that Master Fisher somehow barred Wolf from ever displaying his work anywhere. He did not. Rather, the master allowed Wolf to use the University-controlled space for a certain amount of time, and for a specified purpose...
Moreover, even as a Harvard student, Wolf has no right to display any of his works publicly in Harvard buildings--no more than he has the right to spray graffiti on University walls. If Wolf wants to rent out a space, and display his work there, that is his right. But he has no right to demand University space in order to impose all of his works on the Harvard community--regardless of their artistic merit...
...Wolf's self-proclaimed artistic mission was to increase awareness of the AIDS epidemic. Of course, with his bogus claim of censorship, he has most successfully increased awareness of Cameron Wolf, artist and self-promoter...
...staff's blithe condemnation and dismissal of Cameron S. Wolf, ("a self-described artist") and by extension, his work, astounds me. The editorial remains silent on an important issue, namely the outrageous conflict of interest which obtains when a House Artist-in-Residence--who presumably is a practicing artist (the medium is irrelevant) is given substantial power to determine whose work and which pieces will be exhibited...
Although the staff does not say it outright, it implies that Wolf's work is pornographic. Definitions of pornography are tied to community standards. The Harvard community is an atypical one. Most people here are capable of analytical rigor in dissecting complexities. By pulling selected pieces from the ongoing exhibit at Dudley, the community was denied the chance to make its own decision...