Welcome to a Big, Small, Strange World of Art
- Author
- KCRW ([email protected])
- Published
- Wed 09 Feb 2011
- Episode Link
- https://play.cdnstream1.com/s/kcrw/art-talk/welcome-to-a-big-small-s-835918
It's not that often that one can find art related news on the front page of American newspapers, except when a big time scandal rattles the status quo. In 1990, the director of the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati was put on so-called "obscenity" trial for exhibiting provocative photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe. Now, Mapplethorpe's name is once again front-page news, but this time it marks a happy occasion...
