The Eights | Culture Wars and Art in 1998

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jun 5, 2018

Isaac Kaplan, associate editor at Artsy, talks about the “Culture Wars” that played out in the art world in the 1990s, when conservative politicians tried to cut off government funding for exhibitions featuring artists that dealt with controversial subjects like Christianity and homosexuality.

You can read Isaac's article on this subject here.

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