REMEMBER ROBERT Mapplethorpe, Andres Serrano and Karen Finley, those artistic troublemakers who were targeted by Senator Jesse Helms and other moral guardians campaigning against government funding of "obscene" art? They're back. But in this case, they're not hitting up the National Endowment for the Arts for money. Their work, along with that of nearly 80 other contemporary artists, can now be ordered via an 800 number. The source of this marketing ploy is an innovative free-market effort to compensate for the dicey state of federal arts funding: the Art Matters gift catalog.
Helms and his fellow watchdogs need not worry; the...
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