Locals artists have sued the city after an art show at a local park was closed when the city dismantled an art exhibit it deemed “too racy.”
The New York Daily News reported last week that officials with the Department of Parks and Recreation shut down an art exhibit created by local art students because it included representations of male genitalia.
The show was held at the city-owned Brooklyn War Memorial by students at Brooklyn College, which is part of the City University of New York system.
Norman Siegel, a 1965 Brooklyn College graduate, said he was representing 18 students in a freedom-of-expression lawsuit against the city, the parks department and Brooklyn College.
A parks department official said the city and college have an agreement that any artwork displayed at the public park facility must be deemed “appropriate for families.”
Siegel said that although a real estate developer offered to move the exhibit elsewhere, that students still planned to pursue the suit against the city.
