Check out John Sims' recent show "The Proper way to display the 
Confederate Flag" at Gettysburg College, and a "classic" of 
controversial exhibitions "Tounges of Flame," a 1990s survey of the 
work of the late gay artist David Wojnarowicz. I worked on the 
Wojanowicz exhibition, and wrote a piece about it for the censorship 
anthology  "Suspended License" (Elizabeth Childs, ed., U of Washington 
Press, 1997, ISBN 0-295-97627-6.

Peter Spooner
Curator, Tweed Museum of Art

--On Thursday, February 03, 2005 2:20 PM -0800 Keni Sturgeon 
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I have two separate and slightly related questions.  I have been
> teaching an introduction to museums course for the past three years.
> One of the assignments I have students do is research and present on
> a Controversial Exhibit or an ethical dilemma.  This works well when
> my enrollment is down, but the course is gaining in popularity and
> I'm running out of controversial exhibits.  I'm wondering what
> exhibits members of the list could suggest.  They are covering "Enola
> Gay", "Sensation", and "Old Glory, the American Flag in Contemporary
> Art" as well as some controversial exhibit topics, such as sex,
> Mapplethorpe, and displaying nudes.  What other exhibits come to mind?
>
> Second, I am looking for suggestions for museum videos.  Not videos
> with museums, or videos by museums about their collections/exhibits,
> but videos about a museum.  I have one from The Heard Museum, which
> is great, and I have some recordings from the PBS series "Great
> Museums" (some episodes are helpful, others not so much).  Any
> suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
> Keni Sturgeon
> Jensen Arctic Museum
> Western Oregon University
> Monmouth, OR 97361
>
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University of Minnesota Duluth
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