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NATION, Page 27American NotesCHICAGOFlag-on-the-Floor Furor
Less than a year ago, enraged aldermen barged into the School
of the Art Institute of Chicago and snatched from a wall a portrait
of the late Mayor Harold Washington in lacy lingerie. Last week the
institute was defending another inflammatory exhibit, a work by
Scott Tyler, self-proclaimed "supporter of the Revolutionary
Communist Party U.S.A.," titled What Is the Proper Way to Display
a U.S. Flag? Its key component: an American flag stretched out on
the floor. The institute claimed that Old Glory was positioned so
viewers would not be forced to walk on it. But Joseph Morris, a
lawyer for several veterans' groups, said the exhibit constitutes
an "invitation to step on the flag." The vets, however, failed to
persuade Cook County Circuit Judge Kenneth Gillis to close the
show, so it reopened to the public Friday, after several days of
being viewable only to students, faculty and staff. Security guards
allowed only a limited number into the gallery at any one time, but
that did not stop several veterans from taking the flag off the
floor and holding it up while making speeches. Said James McManus,
chairman of the school's liberal-arts department: "We are trying
to defend the notion that all art, provocative art, can be
displayed." That is certainly true at the Art Institute.