But two commissioned portraits of children, that were called into question during the 1990 Mapplethorpe obscenity case and were ultimately cleared, will not be included. Paul Getty Museum this week will show photographs from Mapplethorpe’s X Portfolio, which includes a provocative self-portrait with a bullwhip, but will omit two controversial images of children.īritt Salvesen, the curator behind Lacma’s show, says that advances in civil rights in the US have encouraged a “greater acceptance of explicitly sexual work”. The joint exhibition devoted to the late US photographer at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Lacma) and the J. Twenty-five years after a landmark trial over exhibiting Robert Mapplethorpe’s photographs, the debate about what can be shown in museums has shifted-but has not completely disappeared. As a major exhibition on the New York photographer opens at Lacma and the Getty Museum, the question of what kind of work museums can show rumbles on.
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