Dear
Colleagues,
In light
of recent censorship by the Smithsonian Institution and threats from some
congressional leaders to pull arts funding from national arts institutions
(including the National Endowment for the Arts), a series of panel discussions
and presentations took place at the Corcoran Gallery of Art on March 26, 2011
to examine the Culture Wars of the late 1980s and early 1990s, and how freedom
of expression and public support for the arts are currently being debated.
Panel discussions included: Censorship Examined; Culture Wars
Redux; Give Me a Revolution: Artist Responses to Censorship; Free
Speech and Arts Funding.
Full-length
videos of each session are now available on the Corcoran Gallery of Art website:
http://getinvolved.corcoran.org/culturewars.
Culture Wars:
Then and Now
Presented in
partnership by Transformer, The National Coalition Against Censorship, and the
Corcoran Gallery of Art and College of Art + Design on March 26, 2011
Continue the
discussion on Twitter
(#CultureWars)
--
Jacqueline L. Protka
Digital Assets and Media
Librarian
Corcoran Library, Corcoran
Gallery/College of Art + Design
500 Seventeenth St., NW
Washington, DC 20006
t. 202-639-1765/f. 202-628-7908
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