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Unsettling 'sensation': Arts-Policy Lessons from the Brooklyn Museum of Art Controversy

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Unsettling 'Sensation': Arts-Policy Lessons from the Brooklyn Museum of Art Controversy - Rothfield, Lawrence, Professor (Editor)
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In September of 1999, Sensation , an exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum, opened its doors, igniting a controversy still burning in the art world. This collection of cutting-edge art from the Saatchi collection in England, and the museum's arrangements with Charles Saatchi to finance the show, so offended New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani that he attempted to shut the museum down by withholding city funds that are crucially needed by that institution. Only a legal ruling prevented him from doing so. Like the Robert ...

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Unsettling 'Sensation': Arts-Policy Lessons from the Brooklyn Museum of Art Controversy 2001, Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ

ISBN-13: 9780813529356

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Unsettling 'Sensation': Arts-Policy Lessons from the Brooklyn Museum of Art Controversy 2001, Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ

ISBN-13: 9780813529349

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