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- <text id=89TT0723>
- <title>
- Mar. 13, 1989: Chicago:Flag-On-The-Floor Furor
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Mar. 13, 1989 Between Two Worlds:Middle-Class Blacks
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 27
- American Notes
- CHICAGO
- Flag-on-the-Floor Furor
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- <p> Less than a year ago, enraged aldermen barged into the
- School of the Art Institute of Chicago and snatched from a wall a
- portrait of the late Mayor Harold Washington in lacy lingerie.
- Last week the institute was defending another inflammatory
- exhibit, a work by Scott Tyler, self-proclaimed "supporter of
- the Revolutionary Communist Party U.S.A.," titled What Is the
- Proper Way to Display a U.S. Flag? Its key component: an
- American flag stretched out on the floor. The institute claimed
- that Old Glory was positioned so viewers would not be forced to
- walk on it. But Joseph Morris, a lawyer for several veterans'
- groups, said the exhibit constitutes an "invitation to step on
- the flag." The vets, however, failed to persuade Cook County
- Circuit Judge Kenneth Gillis to close the show, so it reopened
- to the public Friday, after several days of being viewable only
- to students, faculty and staff. Security guards allowed only a
- limited number into the gallery at any one time, but that did
- not stop several veterans from taking the flag off the floor
- and holding it up while making speeches. Said James McManus,
- chairman of the school's liberal-arts department: "We are trying
- to defend the notion that all art, provocative art, can be
- displayed." That is certainly true at the Art Institute.
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- </body></article>
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