SCOUT· 62%34m·2026-06-19·News PoliticsArt, Outrage and How the Culture Wars Began
In April 1989, a newspaper clipping about an art exhibit landed in the mailbox of the Rev. Donald Wildmon, the founder of a conservative evangelical group, the American Family Association. Partly funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, the exhibit included a now-infamous photograph by Andres Serrano that showed…
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