Images of "David" banned in OR schools
- Artist/Author/Producer: Michelangelo and Channel One educational broadcasting
- Confronting Bodies: Madison Middle School officials
- Dates of action: September 1991
- Location: Eugene, Oregon
- Description of the Art Work
- A news program for students that showed frontal footage of the
Michelangelo's "David."
- Description of incident
- Madison Middle School was scheduled to show its first day of Channel One,
a news show for schools. But because a news story that covered the
vandalism of the sculpture, school officials banned the broadcast on the
grounds that the story showed a "full, front view" of the nude sculpture.
- Results of incident
- Channel One received only two or three other complaints about that day's
show, although nearly 10,000 schools showed the broadcast.
Source: Artistic Freedom Under Attack 1992
