And then there are visitors (individual and group) to art museums who call
ahead and ask us to remove (!!) or cover up any nudes on view.  All of us
have these stories.

Julia Muney Moore
Director of Exhibitions and Artist Services
Indianapolis Art Center
820 E. 67th St.
Indianapolis, IN  46220
(317) 255-2464 x233
FAX (317) 254-0486
email <[log in to unmask]>
website <http://www.indplsartcenter.org>


> I'm just interested
>to
> > know if others have ever faced this type of request, and what their
>thoughts
> > are on the notion of skipping over parts of history to suit the visitor,
> > specifically in a docent-lend tour situation.
>
>Okay, this would really irk me. You can't cut out a section of a region's
>heritage just because you don't agree with it. Presumably your exhibit does
>not
>advocate tobacco use but shows how it helped shape the Eastern Shore to
>what it
>is today.
>
>If you leave that part of the exhibit out, are you going to cover it up or
>put
>guards on it to keep the students from looking at it when they aren't with
>the
>docent? Imagine how disappointed the kids will be if they catch a sneak
>peak at
>the banned section expecting mass nudity and all they get are a bunch of
>tobacco farmers and barges. :)
>

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