70 Year Magazine Archive

The Culture War

Government funding of ‘controversial’ (read: deliberately offensive) art is not your ordinary boondoggle. This sort of art tries to ‘challenge our most deeply sum on and succeeds all too well.

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HENRY J. HYDM

I’M NOT quite sure what it says about America that one of the most intense public controversies in the months between the Tiananmen Square massacre and the breaching of the Berlin Wall had to do with homoerotic photographs and a crucifix suspended in a vat of urine.

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