The Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center, which is funded by the Ohio Arts Council, which is in turn funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, is having a retrospective celebrating the "Culture Wars" of the 1990s, including the famous NEA 4 and Robert Mapplethorpe. From the Contemporary Arts Center website:
"The following is a partial list of artists to be represented: Artist and Homeless Collaborative, Ross Bleckner, Karen Finley, Gran Fury, Group Material, Guerilla Girls, Hans Haacke, Keith Haring, Lynn Hershman, Deborah Kass, Mike Kelley, Jeff Koons, Barbara Kruger, Louise Lawler, Sherrie Levine, Robert Longo, Robert Mapplethorpe, Allan McCollum, Richard Prince, Tim Rollins + KOS, Martha Rosler, David Salle, Julian Schnabel, Cindy Sherman, Haim Steinbach, David Wojnarowicz, and Krystof Wodiczko."
There's an article about the show in the Sunday New York Times. Just one way the "arts community" shows gratitude to President Bush and Congressman Ralph Regula (R-OH) for increasing the budget of the National Endowment for the Arts...
