
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, April 17, 1990                   TAG: 9004170641
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A3   EDITION: EVENING 
SOURCE: associated press
DATELINE: CINCINNATI                                LENGTH: Short

GALLERY PLEADS INNOCENT IN MAPPLETHORPE CASE

An art gallery and its director pleaded innocent to obscenity charges for exhibiting photos by the late Robert Mapplethorpe.

Director Dennis Barrie and the Contemporary Arts Center are charged with pandering obscenity and use of a minor in nudity-oriented material, both misdemeanors.

Defense attorney Louis Sirkin said the case may not go to trial until after the exhibit ends its Cincinnati run May 26. A federal judge has barred authorities from confiscating the photos in the meantime.

More than 25,000 people have viewed the 175-photo exhibit since it opened.

by CNB