Is it written somewhere that a museum does have to be somber, staid and
serious (read, boring)in everything it does.  How does one know what
cutting-edge is until it's presented to the public and the public has a
reaction? If the museum's pr department called the exhibition titillating
and offensive and it wasn't, would visitors demand their money back?  I
believe the museum was trying to be tongue in cheek, not offensive.  In
fact, there are very few citizens out there who appear to be offended
judging from what I've seen on the news and read in the papers.  I also
believe the Mayor was told be be offended by his aides who want him to get
the conservative endorsement.  I remember when NY used to be called "Fun
City".  Not any more.


>From: Ross Weeks <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Brooklyn museum
>Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 11:08:54 -0400
>
>Steven Nowlin wrote:
>
> >This always happens -- it's the Law of Inverse Public Relations from
> >Censorhip -- the more you censor something, the more exposure you provide
> >it.
>
>So far as I can tell from a distance, the Brooklyn Museum invited the
>censorship as a way to promote its exhibit.  It did so in its own
>advertising and promotion -- by telling everyone within driving distance
>that it had a titillating and probably offense exhibit and then named it
>"Sensational."  Do museum professionals have in our Code of Ethics some
>"right" to act as flamboyant advance people for a circus?
>
>Ross Weeks Jr.
>Tazewell VA.
>
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