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====Date: [[:Category:1991|1991]]====
====Region: [[:Category:North America|North America]]====
====Subject: [[:Category:Nudity|Nudity]]====
====Medium: [[:Category:Television|Television]], [[:Category:Sculpture|Sculpture]]====
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'''Artist:''' Michelangelo and Channel One educational broadcasting
'''Confronting Bodies:''' Madison Middle School officials
'''Dates of Action:''' September 1991
'''Location:''' Eugene, Oregon
'''Description of Artwork:''' A news program for students that showed frontal footage of the Michelangelo's "David."
'''The Incident:''' Madison Middle School was scheduled to show its first day of Channel One, a news show for schools. But because a news story that covered the vandalism of the sculpture, school officials banned the broadcast on the grounds that the story showed a "full, front view" of the nude sculpture.
'''Results of Incident:''' Channel One received only two or three other complaints about that day's show, although nearly 10,000 schools showed the broadcast.
'''Source:''' Artistic Freedom Under Attack 1992
====Date: [[:Category:2001|2001]]====
====Date: [[:Category:2001|2001]]====


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