The controversial, aborted 1989 Robert Mapplethorpe retrospective at Washington D.C.'s Corcoran Gallery of Art was titled "The Perfect Moment." It proved ironic, as the Mapplethorpe exhibition unleashed a fierce censorship debate and a Cincinnati obscenity trial the following year--the Contemporary Arts Center museum, which was the defendant, was acquitted. It was the first time a museum faced criminal prosecution for the art it displayed. Maybe not so peachy. By contrast, it feels like the perf...
Raf Simons Gets Candid About His Collaboration With the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation
Vogue - 23 Jun 2016 20:57
The controversial, aborted 1989 Robert Mapplethorpe retrospective at Washington D.C.'s Corcoran Gallery of Art was titled "The Perfect Moment." It proved ironic, as the Mapplethorpe exhibition unleashed a fierce censorship debate and a Cincinnati obscenity trial the following year--the Contemporary Arts Center museum, which was the defendant, was acquitted. It was the first time a museum faced criminal prosecution for the art it displayed. Maybe not so peachy. By contrast, it feels like the perf...
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