RE:  Controversial Exhibits and Videos

Keni -

You didn't list Body Worlds:  The Anatomical Exhibition of Real Human Bodies by artist (?) Gunther von Hagens.  It is showing at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago right now.  I am simultaneously fascinated and revulsed.  A lot depends on my mood.  For instance, I just ate a burrito and the pictures on the website are rather unattractive at the moment!  :-)  Here's the link:  http://www.koerperwelten.de/en/pages/ausstellung_usa.asp

Denise Lajetta, MA
Associate Curator

Kluge-Ruhe Collection of Aboriginal Art, UVA
400 Worrell Drive (PANTOPS)
Peter Jefferson Way
Charlottesville, VA  22911

tel.  434.244.0234
fax  434.244.0235
http://www.virginia.edu/kluge-ruhe/

At 05:20 PM 2/3/2005, you 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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