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Art News: Cincinnati Hosts Mapplethorpe Symposium 25 Years After Trial

By David Schonauer   Friday May 29, 2015

In October of 1990, a jury acquitted Cincinnati’s Contemporary Arts Center and its director Dennis Barrie of obscenity charges following the museum’s exhibition “Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Moment.” The show and the controversy over the trial helped spark the so-called culture wars of the period. In October, the CAC will …

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