- NY Times writer Bob Herbert takes a compelling look the SENSATION situation in Sunday’s NY Times.
Here is an excerpt:
This time Rudolph Giuliani, who has only a passing acquaintance with the First Amendment, is determined to protect us from some nasty pictures at an exhibition. And if the only way to do that is to cripple a terrific cultural resource like the Brooklyn Museum of Art — well, that’s a price the Mayor is perfectly willing to pay.
He’s already gone after the porn parlors. Now it’s a museum. Maybe he can find some nasty passages in some raunchy books and close a few libraries.
You don’t think there’s a chill in the air? Listen to this courageous statement of support for artistic freedom put out separately by the directors of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art:
“I understand that the Brooklyn Museum and the office of the Mayor are in a dialogue. Anything I might say could compromise those talks.”
You can read the entire article here.