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- <title>
- Mar. 27, 1989: American Notes:Chicago
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Mar. 27, 1989 Is Anything Safe?
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 45
- American Notes
- CHICAGO
- Don't Tread On Me
- </hdr><body>
- <p> I couldn't have imagined this would happen in my wildest
- fantasies," marveled artist Dread Scott Tyler. What astonished
- him was the mobs of outraged veterans and others who gathered
- daily at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago to protest
- his controversial work featuring an American flag stretched on
- the floor. Until the exhibition closed last week, politicians,
- patriots and just plain folks joined in angrily condemning what
- they believed was desecration of Old Glory.
- </p>
- <p> Other artists felt obliged to counterprotest what they said
- was a curtailment of Tyler's right to free expression. The Art
- Institute school was the site of a similar controversy last
- year over a painting portraying the late Mayor Harold Washington
- dressed in lingerie. Ironically, at that time Tyler joined
- protests alleging that the portrayal of the mayor was racist.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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