Virginia Governor Objects To Graphic Slide Show

Saturday May 20 by Claudia bourneArt Daily
Gov. Jim Gilmore of Virginia says a photographer's sexually graphic slide show had no place in a state-owned art museum. He objected to the presentation by Sally Mann in a letter this week to officials at the Virginia Museum of Arts. Near the end of her 90-minute lecture May 10, Mann showed pictures that included depictions of oral sex, genitalia and young girls urinating, according to witness accounts. In his letter to Richard Woodward, the museum's interim director, Gilmore said he was "shocked and dismayed that this type of exhibit occurred on state owned property." The administration learned of the presentation after verifying the claims of someone who had attended it and anonymously wrote to Gilmore.





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