REMEMBERING THE CULTURE WARS

During his eight-year tenure at the Wadsworth Atheneum, Patrick McCaughey, who was the museum’s director from 1988 to 1996, spearheaded a number of high-profile and controversial exhibitions. In the Hartford Courant, McCaughey looks back at one of the most controversial of all: the 1989 Robert Mapplethorpe exhibition “The Perfect Moment.” “The atmosphere was much more tense then; it was really the culture wars, what Hillary Clinton might call a ‘vast, right-wing conspiracy,'” he comments to the Courant‘s Steve Courtney.