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Date: | Sat, 30 Mar 1996 01:43:34 -0500 |
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[log in to unmask] writes:
" I don't get worked up about desecrating the flag, but I do get worked
up about bad art. And I am particularly concerned that the museum
community is losing its credibility by making hard and fast
commitments to protect *any* sort of artistic expression. Can't we be
discriminating? Can't we say that some stuff, even if it is
provocative, is just dopey? Or is provocation itself now an artistic
virtue, so that the more provoking a piece is, the more it is worthy
of being considered art?"
Actually, artists I have talked with feel the museum community has not had a
great record on freedom of expression issues. I tended not to agree with
them, but am starting to think I need to reconsider. If all that "art
student-y", provacative work "just went away", where do you think the work
representing "previously neglected viewpoints" is going to come from?
Margaret Pezalla
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