It’s four in the morning, the end of September. I’m writing you now just to see if you’re better. New York is cold but I like where I’m living. There’s music on Clinton Street all through the evening…
L Cohen
lacma: On June 30, 1989, a group of Washington, D.C.-based curators, artists and activists gathered at the Corcoran Gallery of Art to protest the shuttering of the Mapplethorpe retrospective The Perfect Moment. The centerpiece of the demonstration was a projection onto the museum’s exterior wall, consisting of ten works included in the censored exhibition.  Today on Unframed we interviewed Bill Wooby, one of the organizers of that protest. Pat Buchanan, the radio talk show host, invited someone from our group to be on his show to talk about censorship and Robert Mapplethorpe. I asked if he had seen any Mapplethorpe exhibits, and, if not, I didn’t want to talk with him. We never heard back from him. This Saturday we will re-stage the protest at LACMA, projecting the same ten images on the walls of the Ahmanson Building. On the same evening we’re also presenting Outlawed! Queer Cinema Before the Culture Wars in the Bing Theater. Last but not least—this weekend is your last chance to see Robert Mapplethorpe: XYZ. It closes Sunday. (For that matter, so does In Focus: Robert Mapplethorpe over at the Getty.) Images: Frank Herrera, photographs of The Perfect Moment protest, June 30, 1989, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. ©Frank Herrera Why don’t I still live in LA? #mapplethorpe #lacma
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lacma: On June 30, 1989, a group of Washington, D.C.-based curators, artists and activists gathered at the Corcoran Gallery of Art to protest the shuttering of the Mapplethorpe retrospective The Perfect Moment. The centerpiece of the demonstration was a projection onto the museum’s exterior wall, consisting of ten works included in the censored exhibition.  Today on Unframed we interviewed Bill Wooby, one of the organizers of that protest. Pat Buchanan, the radio talk show host, invited someone from our group to be on his show to talk about censorship and Robert Mapplethorpe. I asked if he had seen any Mapplethorpe exhibits, and, if not, I didn’t want to talk with him. We never heard back from him. This Saturday we will re-stage the protest at LACMA, projecting the same ten images on the walls of the Ahmanson Building. On the same evening we’re also presenting Outlawed! Queer Cinema Before the Culture Wars in the Bing Theater. Last but not least—this weekend is your last chance to see Robert Mapplethorpe: XYZ. It closes Sunday. (For that matter, so does In Focus: Robert Mapplethorpe over at the Getty.) Images: Frank Herrera, photographs of The Perfect Moment protest, June 30, 1989, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. ©Frank Herrera Why don’t I still live in LA? #mapplethorpe #lacma
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lacma: On June 30, 1989, a group of Washington, D.C.-based curators, artists and activists gathered at the Corcoran Gallery of Art to protest the shuttering of the Mapplethorpe retrospective The Perfect Moment. The centerpiece of the demonstration was a projection onto the museum’s exterior wall, consisting of ten works included in the censored exhibition.  Today on Unframed we interviewed Bill Wooby, one of the organizers of that protest. Pat Buchanan, the radio talk show host, invited someone from our group to be on his show to talk about censorship and Robert Mapplethorpe. I asked if he had seen any Mapplethorpe exhibits, and, if not, I didn’t want to talk with him. We never heard back from him. This Saturday we will re-stage the protest at LACMA, projecting the same ten images on the walls of the Ahmanson Building. On the same evening we’re also presenting Outlawed! Queer Cinema Before the Culture Wars in the Bing Theater. Last but not least—this weekend is your last chance to see Robert Mapplethorpe: XYZ. It closes Sunday. (For that matter, so does In Focus: Robert Mapplethorpe over at the Getty.) Images: Frank Herrera, photographs of The Perfect Moment protest, June 30, 1989, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. ©Frank Herrera Why don’t I still live in LA? #mapplethorpe #lacma
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lacma:

On June 30, 1989, a group of Washington, D.C.-based curators, artists and activists gathered at the Corcoran Gallery of Art to protest the shuttering of the Mapplethorpe retrospective The Perfect Moment. The centerpiece of the demonstration was a projection onto the museum’s exterior wall, consisting of ten works included in the censored exhibition. 

Today on Unframed we interviewed Bill Wooby, one of the organizers of that protest.

Pat Buchanan, the radio talk show host, invited someone from our group to be on his show to talk about censorship and Robert Mapplethorpe. I asked if he had seen any Mapplethorpe exhibits, and, if not, I didn’t want to talk with him. We never heard back from him.

This Saturday we will re-stage the protest at LACMA, projecting the same ten images on the walls of the Ahmanson Building. On the same evening we’re also presenting Outlawed! Queer Cinema Before the Culture Wars in the Bing Theater.

Last but not least—this weekend is your last chance to see Robert Mapplethorpe: XYZ. It closes Sunday. (For that matter, so does In Focus: Robert Mapplethorpe over at the Getty.)

Images: Frank Herrera, photographs of The Perfect Moment protest, June 30, 1989, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. ©Frank Herrera

Why don’t I still live in LA? #mapplethorpe #lacma

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movieposteroftheday: 1959 Italian 4-foglio for BELL, BOOK AND CANDLE (Richard Quine, USA, 1958) Artist: Giorgio Olivetti Poster source: Heritage Auctions The Italian title translates as “A Witch in Paradise” This was just on TCM last week! One of my favorite movies, completely undervalued. I’ve always wanted to name a cat #piewacket.
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1959 Italian 4-foglio for BELL, BOOK AND CANDLE (Richard Quine, USA, 1958)

Artist: Giorgio Olivetti

Poster source: Heritage Auctions

The Italian title translates as “A Witch in Paradise”

This was just on TCM last week! One of my favorite movies, completely undervalued. I’ve always wanted to name a cat #piewacket.

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