Comments on: “Imperfect Moments: Mapplethorpe & Censorship Twenty Years Later” at ICA in Philadelphia http://blog.art21.org/2009/02/18/mapplethorpe-ica/ The Official Blog of Art21, Inc. and the Art in the Twenty-First Century PBS series Fri, 19 Mar 2010 04:58:24 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: The Conflation of Ethics and Morality | Art21 Blog http://blog.art21.org/2009/02/18/mapplethorpe-ica/comment-page-1/#comment-19706 The Conflation of Ethics and Morality | Art21 Blog Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:16:33 +0000 http://blog.art21.org/?p=3005#comment-19706 [...] free from the kind of traumatic, political interference caused by the politician Jesse Helms, who famously tried to cut funding from photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in the [...] [...] free from the kind of traumatic, political interference caused by the politician Jesse Helms, who famously tried to cut funding from photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in the [...]

]]> By: SEX & DEATH « STILL LIFE http://blog.art21.org/2009/02/18/mapplethorpe-ica/comment-page-1/#comment-13968 SEX & DEATH « STILL LIFE Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:10:19 +0000 http://blog.art21.org/?p=3005#comment-13968 [...] 24 September 2009 20 years ago, Robert Mapplethorpe’s photography exhibition, A Perfect Moment, replete with frankly sexual, highly stylized, unabashedly obscene imagery, caused such a ruckus, [...] [...] 24 September 2009 20 years ago, Robert Mapplethorpe’s photography exhibition, A Perfect Moment, replete with frankly sexual, highly stylized, unabashedly obscene imagery, caused such a ruckus, [...]

]]> By: Arts Stimulus Funding & the Art Economy Part 2: Talking to the House Arts Caucus Co-Chairs | Art21 Blog http://blog.art21.org/2009/02/18/mapplethorpe-ica/comment-page-1/#comment-12344 Arts Stimulus Funding & the Art Economy Part 2: Talking to the House Arts Caucus Co-Chairs | Art21 Blog Thu, 09 Jul 2009 12:01:11 +0000 http://blog.art21.org/?p=3005#comment-12344 [...] to continue until the mid-1990s, when federal arts funding became a lightning rod issue as the ICA’s exhibition of Robert Mapplethorpe photography became the poster child for an art establishment that reputedly didn’t represent [...] [...] to continue until the mid-1990s, when federal arts funding became a lightning rod issue as the ICA’s exhibition of Robert Mapplethorpe photography became the poster child for an art establishment that reputedly didn’t represent [...]

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