A Perfect Moment, 1990 Exhibition Poster

Bring home one of these original posters from the 1990 exhibition, Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Moment. 

The exhibition that immediately sparked controversy when politicians took offense to the show and the use of public funds provided by the National Endowment of the Arts (NEA) to support it, leading to the indictment of the CAC and Director Dennis Barrie on obscenity charges. The historic trial that followed–where for the first time a museum and its director faced criminal charges because of an art exhibition–brought national attention to the subject of public funding for the arts, as well as arts censorship.