Although contemporary art may sometimes shock us, more alarming are recent attempts to regulate its display. Drawing upon extensive interviews, a broad sampling of media accounts, legal documents and
Dubin (media, society, and arts, State U. of New York-Purchase) examines the most controversial US museum exhibits of the 1990s. They include shows about ethnicity, slavery, Freud, the Old West, and t
Museums have become ground zero in America's culture wars. Whereas fierce public debates once centered on provocative work by upstart artists, the scrutiny has now expanded to mainstream cultural inst
