By the time my father, brother and I got to the 1964 World’s Fair Governor Rockefeller had already yanked the Warhol contribution to the Philip Johnson designed New York State Pavilion. His mugshots were up for two days before the political censorship. I took the shot (above) at the I. M. Pei designed Johnson Museum on Cornel’s campus in Ithaca. I could not let the fifty year anniversary of this act go by without calling further attention to it. The mugshots Warhol produced for the Pavilion are on display at the Queens Museum now while across town you could be in line for the show of “Degenerate Art: The Attack on Modern Art in Nazi Germany” at the Neue Gallery.
The Crimestopper page in our local newspaper got me thinking.
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