A web search using the terms

"controversial museum exhibitions"

will provide several hits of interest on the topic    

 

example - http://www.princeton.edu/~artspol/syllabi/Kammen421.pdf

"...History 421/American Studies 421/History of Art 421
Art Controversies in American Culture
Fall term 2003 Professor M. Kammen
Mondays 2:30-4:30 McGraw Hall 140
McGraw Hall 366 [log in to unmask]
This seminar will examine art and architecture that have generated major conflicts
in U.S. history, mainly during the past century, and especially since the early 1960s. The
primary issues will involve patriotism, religion, race, modernism, feminism, sexuality
and obscenity, public art and memorials, “sacred space,” and the changing place of
museums in American life as demonstrated by the controversial museum exhibitions..."

 

examplePHIL 238(F) Controversial Art (Same as ArtH 217)

"...Suppose a work of art offends you. Should that ever matter? Suppose you think a work of art is dangerous. Does that ever matter? We will study recent examples of controversial museum exhibitions, such as the Cincinnati Mappelthorpe exhibition and the Brooklyn Museum of Art Sensation exhibition...."

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"...All museums are social arenas and Jewish museums in particular engage a broad set of social, historical, and political issues. How might a close reading of controversial museum exhibitions illuminate contemporary Jewish culture? ..."

 

Barbara Hass, retired librarian