Sentences with phrase «of obscenity charges»

Berman was arrested, charged, and convicted of obscenity charges.

Dennis Barrie, director of Cincinnati's Contemporary Arts Center, is acquitted of obscenity charges after presenting Robert Mapplethorpe's photographs at the museum.

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Abortion clinics are firebombed; Planned Parenthood workers are murdered; an art gallery owner is arrested for exhibiting Robert Mapplethorpe's photographs; a rap group is arrested on obscenity charges; the civil rights — or «special privileges» — of gays and lesbians are the subject of controversial referenda; and issues of multiculturahsm, freedom of expression and «political...

In real life, Reems was jailed on obscenity charges and fought a lengthy legal battle with the help of none other than Alan Dershowitz while also fighting a persistent battle with hard drugs.

It's somewhat surprising that when a director makes the choice to include unsimulated sex in a film, charges of pornographic obscenity or baseless provocation can't be far behind.

Sweden's provocative export got hung up in the US court system, where it prevailed against charges of obscenity.

But Supreme Court decisions of the»60s and»70s have rendered obscenity pretty ungainly to work with as a criminal charge.

Legal Gia Mannry asks some manga publishers and a retailer how the sentencing of Christopher Handley last month on obscenity charges will affect the way the conduct business.

The former category included The People v. Bruce (parrhesia), 2011, an installation by Eric Garduno and Matthew Rana that looks at First Amendment rights in the context of Lenny Bruce's 1964 trial on obscenity charges.

In 1990, Dennis Barrie, the then director of the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center, was charged with obscenity by Hamilton County for mounting an exhibition of Robert Mapplethorpe photographs.

A new two - hour documentary looks at the provocative photos and life of Robert Mapplethorpe, including the ones which brought obscenity charges against Cincinnati's Contemporary Arts Center in 1990.

He achieved national prominence in 1990 when he successfully defended Dennis Barrie, the director of the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, against obscenity charges for displaying the nude artwork of Robert Mapplethorpe,.

Offense was taken and controversy sparked, leading to the indictment of the CAC on obscenity charges.

The exhibition immediately sparked controversy when politicians took offense to the show and the use of public funds provided by the National Endowment of the Arts to support it, leading to the indictment of the Contemporary Arts Center Cincinnati and Director Dennis Barrie on obscenity charges.

In 1990, at the height of the so - called culture wars, Hamilton County prosecutors charged the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati and its then director Dennis Barrie with obscenity for showing the photos.

After videotaping the evidence --- Mapplethorpe's X Portfolio, a 1978 series that includes pictures of gay sadomasochistic scenarios --- police charged the museum and its director, Dennis Barrie, with pandering obscenity.

(Two such photos exhibited at the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati 25 years ago were part of a trial believed to be the first in which a museum was charged with obscenity.)

When it was later shown at the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, director Dennis Barrie was arrested and charged with pandering obscenity — a charge of which he was acquitted.

Aware that charges could arise, Sirkin filed an action of declaratory judgment in local court, arguing that under Ohio law, a legitimate museum such as the CAC could not be charged with obscenity.

The exhibition marked the 25th anniversary of Mapplethorpe's 1990 survey show The Perfect Moment, which famously resulted in the CAC being charged with obscenity for displaying homoerotic content.

His homoerotic images became the subject of a much publicized obscenity charge in 1990 involving the Cincinnati Art Museum.

«Man in Polyester Suit» was also part of a show of Mapplethorpe works that led to criminal obscenity charges against the director of Cincinnati's Contemporary Arts Center.

With a tip of his hat to Eric Miller, who brought the story to his attention, Volokh Conspiracy blogfather Eugene Volokh takes on the story of two Laramie, Wyo., men who are «facing obscenity charges for allegedly building a snow sculpture of a phallus in their front yard.»

The crime comics provision was only half - heartedly enforced: there were a handful of prosecutions through the 1950s, but they seemed to have dropped away by the 1960s — though as late as the 1980s, a «crime comics» charge would occasionally be laid (in one case in the late 80s from Calgary, the charge was eventually changed to an obscenity charge).

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