Volume 39, Number 8 · April 23, 1992

Art, Morals, and Politics

By Robert Hughes

I mean to ramble over matters of art and morality, censorship, politics, and public institutions. And to make things worse I am going to start with an event which is certainly emblematic, but which you may have heard altogether too much about already—namely, the scandal over Robert Mapplethorpe's photographs a couple of years back.



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