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Sep 23, 2011 · At long last, has she no decency? The transgressive, titillating performance artist Karen Finley was denied a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1990 because the language and ...
- Alexander Cavaluzzo
Dec 6, 2023 · Reporting from Miami Beach. Published Dec. 6, 2023 Updated Dec. 8, 2023. Very few visual artists have been the subject of a Supreme Court case. Karen Finley, 67, is one of them. A member of the...
- Julia Halperin
Feb 15, 2002 · Much of Finley’s work in the 1980s did not meet the National Endowment for the Arts’ congressionally set standards for decency. Finley calls this kind of legislation a form of McCarthyism, and ...
Jun 10, 1992 · The ruling comes in the case of four artists -- including Karen Finley, known for a performance in which she smeared chocolate on her breasts -- who claimed that their applications for federal...
Nov 4, 2019 · The plaintiffs alleged that the "decency and respect" provision was impermissably vague and imposed content-based restrictions which violated the First and Fifth amendments to the U.S....
Oct 9, 2007 · On June 25, 1998, the Supreme Court ruled in an 8-1 opinion that the 1990 “standards of decency” statute is constitutional. The Court held that the law in question is not an example of direct government regulation of speech, but is merely a lawful example of congressional authority to set spending priorities that may indirectly affect ...
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Feb 28, 2022 · Karen Finley reflects on her legendary performance pieces, censorship and decades of groundbreaking work—and the sheer joy in creating art. Debbie Millman: Most political art doesn’t change much. Occasionally though, art becomes the cutting edge of political activism. Karen Finley has spent her career on and even over that edge.
