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How “Piss Christ” Became a Culture-War Bomb

New Yorker Culture 13 July 2026 12h ago
How “Piss Christ” Became a Culture-War Bomb
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The fight over Andres Serrano, Robert Mapplethorpe, and the National Endowment for the Arts became a preview of the politics that followed.
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