Cops And Artists
November, 1990
Art and obscenity are politically hot buttons. Push them and you get your name in headlines and eight-second sound bites. Congressmen can debate Federal funding for the arts, a vision of a clean America filled with nice images, and rack up the votes back home.But symbolic posturing eventually leads to concrete acts; this past year, we saw the attack dogs of the right arrest a Cincinnati museum director for exhibiting photos by the late Robert Mapplethorpe. And in San Francisco, the FBI raided ph...
