I am disappointed at BYU's decision to withhold from public view the nude works of prominent artist Burton Silverman. As with Rodin's The Kiss in 1997, BYU has abdicated its public responsibility as an institution of higher learning and has designated itself a curator of public morality.
Much of the world's great religious and secular art deals with the nude human form as the ultimate work of art and an homage to God as the ultimate artist. It is fortunate that the Sistine Chapel ceiling and Michelangelo's David are in Italy, not at BYU.
David E. Jensen
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