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<text id=90TT2128>
<title>
Aug. 13, 1990: American Notes:The Arts
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
Aug. 13, 1990 Iraq On The March
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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NATION, Page 49
American Notes
THE ARTS
Don't Confront The Holocaust?
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<p> Ever since the National Endowment for the Arts stirred a
ruckus by funding an exhibition of photographs with explicitly
homosexual themes by Robert Mapplethorpe, NEA Chairman John
Frohnmayer has ducked public appearances. Last week he
testified to a commission probing the NEA's grant policies.
Claiming that a display that "leads to confrontation...would not be appropriate for public funding," he came up with
an outrageous example. He suggested that a photograph of
Holocaust victims displayed "in the entrance of a museum where
all would have to confront it, whether they chose to or not,"
might not be fit for federal funding.
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<p> There is no doubt that the Holocaust was obscene in most any
sense. But there is every reason for viewers to confront--and
remember--its horrors, whether they wish to or not. If
Frohnmayer can equate it with pornography, perhaps it is his
views that should be reviewed.
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