In July, the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), a multi-theater arts center tending to the avant-garde, presented a postcard promotion to the U.S. Postal Service. The USPS deemed it obscene and demanded it be covered up in an envelope.
The mailer, an advertisement for the BAMcinematek short film series Aug. 1 and 2, depicted nine nude men with their backs to the camera standing on a suburban street.
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