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Coincidence Sets Off Storm Over Erotic Work

By WILLIAM YARDLEY

Published: October 12, 2004 New York Times

"Some people saw it as outright censorship when the University of Hartford abruptly removed a painting by Damian Loeb from "The Charged Image," a sexually explicit exhibition of 39 works in a campus gallery."

Loeb's painting appropriated the image of three graduates of the school as children, and painted the subjects in a sexually explicit pose. The graduates all came from an influential family at the school, and, outraged by the painting, they demanded it be removed from the gallery. The family used copyright as an excuse to threaten Loeb, claiming that he had stolen the property of the photographer who had originally captured the image of the three boys.