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- GRAPEVINE, Page 23Let's Lighten Up on Those Flesh Tones
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- By PAUL GRAY/Reported by David Ellis
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- Students at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago are
- getting more attention than they expected. The school has hired
- a team of consultants who are scheduled to drop in on art
- classes and "assess student profiles," which the students
- suspect really means taking note of potentially offensive works
- in progress. School officials may not want to be burned again
- by their students' knack for controversy. In 1988 an exhibition
- featuring a portrayal of the late Mayor Harold Washington in
- women's underwear prompted enraged aldermen to take the
- painting off the wall in protest. A year later, veterans' groups
- went ballistic over a student's placing of an American flag
- on the floor, which encouraged visitors to traipse across it
- as part of the artistic experience. While officials staunchly
- defended the right to free expression at the time, the
- institute would be happy to avoid a new episode and a possible
- drop in public contributions.
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