This was my first time posting a request on the list, and I am very pleased
with the response I have received. My thanks to everyone who responded.
The information I received is summarized as follows:
>
>City of Cincinnati v. Contemporary Arts Center (and)
>City of Cincinnati v. Barrie
>
>57 Ohio Misc.2d 9; 566 N.E.2d 207
>
>Another part of the matter is at 57 Ohio Misc.2d 15; 566 N.E.2d 214
>
>
>This is the case in which the Cincinnati Contempory Arts Center and its
director, Dennis Barrie, who is now at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, were
prosecuted for showing the photography of the American artist Robert
Mapplethorpe. The case ended with a "not guilty" verdict, but was the first
time in American history that an art museum was prosecuted for mounting an
exhibition. This case is available on-line at the following URL:
>
>>http://fileroom.aaup.uic.edu/FileRoom/documents/Cases/337mapplethorp
>>e.html
>>
>
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