P3D Re: Alternative Content (was:Burning Man site updated)

[pd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Xal razutis writes:
> Mapelthorpe was unacceptable 'alternative content' for Jessie Helms and the 
> so-called 'moral majority', resulting in the near dismantling of the NEA.  
> New York's Giuliani is explicitly objecting, in the recent headlines, to the 
> CONTENT of the recent Brooklyn show.  Neither spoke about 'form' and 
> 'technique', or which 'cameras did they use'.

Actually, this is not entirely true.  In the case of the Brooklyn
Museum of Art, at least one work is controversial because of the
medium used, rather than the subject matter of the painting.

-pd


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