Reader Response

August, 1997

Hey, Jesse Helms, have you heard the news?Art is actually good for you!Hey, Jesse Helms, what's that you say?Artists are all freaks, and they're all gay!Hey, Jesse Helms, let's make a plan;We'll make the art, and we'll take a stand.Art is not just pleasing to the eye.It's radical, fanatical and can make you cry.Hey, Jesse Helms, you preach to all the masses.Censorship! Censorship! Kiss our asses!--Boston's School of the Museum of Fine Arts' Cheerleaders Performing at an Artnow Rally in Washingto...