The controversy over the removal of a four-minute David Wojnarowicz video from the “Hide/Seek” exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery had observers wondering whether the culture wars were back—and whether anything could be done to stop them.

Why did eight jurors in Cincinnati trial decide that the Mapplethorpe photographs they considered "gross and lewd" are not obscene? "We felt that we had no choice, one juror told Robin. "We learned that art doesn't have to be pretty”

LACMA’s plan to open a show featuring Robert Mapplethorpe’s gay sadomasochistic photographs two weeks before Election Day proves we’ve come a long way--maybe.

In attempting to avoid controversies over content, a Smithsonian panel might be setting the stage for even more.

Cincinnati’s Contemporary Arts Center and director Dennis Barrie are indicted on charges of obscenity over the show ‘Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Moment’

The ACLU and People For the American Way launch new branches devoted to the culture wars

Debating the ‘decency provision’ in federal funding.

The “doodoo” comment, from Rep. Robert Dornan about a work by John Miller, focused on just one of the controversies surrounding the beleaguered National Endowment for the Arts amidst conservative efforts to abolish the agency.

Acting NEA head Anne-Imelda Radice was criticized by the left and the right as she tried to keep the agency afloat.

Actress Jane Alexander takes the helm of the embattled National Endowment for the Arts.