1992

Includes: From Vitagraph to Spike Lee, Brooklyn on Film; Brooklyn Museum Ball; Modernism: A Century of Style and Design; Contributor's Circle Events; Luchino Visconti: Maestro of the Movies; Israeli Women Direct; Too Shocking to Show with Franklin Furnace Gallery; Hollywood on Trial: Films from the Blacklist Era; Art Breaks, a series of free informative gallery talks; Winter and Spring program brochure; Summer Jazz; Reinterpreting the Blues; Artist in Residence; Symposium: Rediscovering Islamic Textiles.

Also includes the Program Too Shocking to Show, which was a collaboration with Franklin Furnace. This was put together in response to the NEA funding controversy. In 1989 conservative Senators advocated for an additional 'obscenity clause" in which government funding is provided to arts organizations, or artists. "The Interior Approprations conference compromise prevents the NEA from using federal funds to 'promote, disseminate or produce obscene materials, including but not limited to depictions of sadomasochism, homo-eroticism, the sexual exploitation of children, or individuals engaged in sex acts.'" (Elizabeth Kastor, "Obscenity Measure Approved," Washington Post, Spetember 30, 1989.) In 1992 Franklin Furnace was denied a grant due to the sexual nature of a performance by Scarlet O in the previous season. At the Brooklyn Museum 4 artists who's works were labelled as sexual, obsene, or controversial performed in protest, including Holly Hughes, Tim Miller, Sapphire, and Scarlet O.