The Eights | Culture Wars and Art in 1998

David Ravitch puts the finishing touches on the sign for the controversial art exhibit "Sensation" at the Brooklyn Museum of Art Monday, Sept. 27, 1999, in New York.

Isaac Kaplan, associate editor at Artsy, talks about the “Culture Wars” that played out in the art world in the 1990s, when conservative politicians tried to cut off government funding for exhibitions featuring artists that dealt with controversial subjects like Christianity and homosexuality.

You can read Isaac's article on this subject here.