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====Date: [[:Category: | ====Date: [[:Category:1990|1990]]==== | ||
====Region: [[:Category:North America|North America]] [[:Category:|]] [[:Category:|{location3}]]==== | ====Region: [[:Category:North America|North America]] [[:Category:|Category:]] [[:Category:|{location3}]]==== | ||
====Subject: [[:Category:Sexual/Gender Orientation|Sexual/Gender Orientation]] [[:Category:Explicit Sexuality|Explicit Sexuality]] [[:Category:Nudity|Nudity]]==== | ====Subject: [[:Category:Sexual/Gender Orientation|Sexual/Gender Orientation]], [[:Category:Explicit Sexuality|Explicit Sexuality]], [[:Category:Nudity|Nudity]]==== | ||
====Medium: [[:Category:Photography|Photography | ====Medium: [[:Category:Photography|Photography]]==== | ||
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'''Artist:''' Robert Mapplethorpe, Contemporary Arts Center | '''Artist:''' Robert Mapplethorpe, Contemporary Arts Center | ||
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'''Description of Artwork:''' A retrospective show for the late Robert Mapplethorpe including many nudes, some of children, flowers, and sadomasochistic activities. | '''Description of Artwork:''' A retrospective show for the late [[Robert Mapplethorpe]] including many nudes, some of children, flowers, and sadomasochistic activities. | ||
'''The Incident:''' Officials of the Contemporary Arts Center of Cincinnati tried to be prudent: they restricted access to the museum to those over 18 and relegated the most disturbing and explicit of the 175 photographs to a separate, further isolated room. This was not enough, however, to keep a local sheriff from staging a raid on the exhibit and seeking indictments against museum director Dennis Barrie on obscenity charges; nor was it enough to keep the grand jury from handing up an indictment. | '''The Incident:''' Officials of the Contemporary Arts Center of Cincinnati tried to be prudent: they restricted access to the museum to those over 18 and relegated the most disturbing and explicit of the 175 photographs to a separate, further isolated room. This was not enough, however, to keep a local sheriff from staging a raid on the exhibit and seeking indictments against museum director Dennis Barrie on obscenity charges; nor was it enough to keep the grand jury from handing up an indictment. | ||
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'''Source:''' Committee For Artists' Rights Archive | '''Source:''' Committee For Artists' Rights Archive | ||
[[Category: | [[Category:1990]] | ||
[[Category:]] | [[Category:1990s]] | ||
[[Category:]] | [[Category:20th century]] | ||
[[Category:North America]] | [[Category:North America]] | ||
[[Category:]] | [[Category:United States]] | ||
[[Category:]] | [[Category:Ohio]] | ||
[[Category:Cincinnati]] | |||
[[Category:Sexual/Gender Orientation]] | [[Category:Sexual/Gender Orientation]] | ||
[[Category:Explicit Sexuality]] | [[Category:Explicit Sexuality]] | ||
[[Category:Nudity]] | [[Category:Nudity]] | ||
[[Category:Photography]] | [[Category:Photography]] | ||
[[Category: | [[Category:Robert Mapplethorpe | ||
[[Category: | [[Category:Contemporary Arts Center]] | ||
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