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- <title>
- Oct. 22, 1990: Let's Lighten Up On Those Flesh Tones
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Oct. 22, 1990 The New Jazz Age
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- GRAPEVINE, Page 23
- Let's Lighten Up on Those Flesh Tones
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- <body>
- <p>By PAUL GRAY/Reported by David Ellis
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- <p> 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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- </body>
- </article>
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