Indigo,
I saw the Times at Starbuck's this AM and bought it just for this article.
I read it while waiting for the dentist.  Infuriated is an understatement.

First of all, it sounds a lot like censorship:

"But the subcommittee of about a dozen members was formed to write
the standards meant to address, as the mayor said last spring,
'whether or not there should be a different assessment made when
public dollars are being used than when private dollars are being
used' in city museums."

Secondly, they take what is supposed to be a mandate for multi-culturalism
and turn it around 180 degrees and use it to further the right-wing
conservative judeo-christian platform:

"Mr. Bergman, who added that he did not think that the exhibition at the
Brooklyn Museum, 'Sensation', would have been displayed under the national
association's suggested code of ethics. He is suggesting that city museums
accept some version of those guidelines, which include
promotion of programs that 'respect pluralistic values, traditions
and concerns,' and that 'promote the public good rather than
individual financial gain,'..."

Duh, if an institution fears that it will loose funding (public or
otherwise), then it will no longer make decisions that promote public good
rather than ones which have financial "gain" (read: survival) as a primary
motivation.  How phenominally STUPID can Guiliani be?

Lori Allen,
graduate Student, UMSL




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