As an 18yo in 1989, really interesting to revisit this time (as a non-American and given the context at the time and the outsized weight accorded culture ‘wars’). Excellent piece! www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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How “Piss Christ” Became a Culture-War Bomb
The fight over Andres Serrano, Robert Mapplethorpe, and the National Endowment for the Arts became a preview of the politics that followed.