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The Arts and Humanities in Public Life 2000:
Taking Funds, Giving Offense, Making Money: The Brooklyn Museum of Art Controversy and the Dilemmas of Arts Policy
Saturday February 12, 2000
The School of the Art Institute Ballroom,
112 S. Michigan Ave
Program and Conference Papers
Papers are no longer available on-line since the publication of a book based on conference presentations. The book is titled Unsettling Sensation: Arts Policy Lessons from the Brooklyn Museum of Art Controversy and is available from Rutgers University Press.
Read more about the book including Professor Rothfield's introduction to the collection.
The Controversy
A comprehensive archive of coverage and criticism of the Sensation furor
in The Arts Journal on-line.
Chicago Public Radio WBEZ Interview with Professors Carol Becker, Homi Bhabha, and Richard Epstein
Odyssey, February 10, 2000
CONFERENCE COVERAGE
"'Sensation,' Gone but Still Provocative"
New York Times February 14, 2000
"A possible conflict by museums in art sales"
New York Times February 22, 2000
"Panels debate offensive art"
Chicago Sun-Times February 13, 2000
"Museums Walk a Fine Ethical Line . . ."
MSNBC.com February 15, 2000.
This conference was made possible by a generous grant from the McCormick
Tribune Foundation, with crucial assistance from the School of the Art Institute
and these University of Chicago supporters: The David and Alfred Smart Museum,
the Office of the Provost, the Division of the Humanities, and the Irving
B. Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies.
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