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Painting sparks
political debate
By Tom Hays
The Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — Art fused
with politics Monday as an exhib
it including elephant dung on a
painting of the Virgin Mary be
came the latest issue in the duel
between Mayor Rudolph Giuliani
and Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Giuliani — who like the first
lady is an all-but-declared candi
date for the Senate from New
York — has threatened to cut $7
million in funding to the Brook
lyn Museum of Art if it goes
ahead with the show on Satur
day. He has called the exhibit,
which also features bisected ani
mals and a topless woman in the
place of Jesus at the Last Supper,
“sick” and offensive.
Late Monday, a City Hall source
speaking on condition of anonymi
ty said the museum agreed to pull
the dung-decorated painting as
part of a tentative deal with the
mayor. But the museum issued a
statement saying no deal had been
reached and that the exhibit was
going to open as planned.
Earlier Monday, Clinton de
clared that the museum shouldn’t
lose its funding — money that
makes up a full third of its budget.
“It’s not appropriate to penalize
and punish an institution such as
the Brooklyn Museum,” Clinton
said during an appearance at a
Harlem school.
At the same time, she said she
shares “the feeling that I know
many New Yorkers have that
there are parts of this exhibit that
would be deeply offensive.”
“I would not go to see this ex
hibit,” she added.
Giuliani, who is Roman
Catholic, accused the first lady of
supporting the use of public mon
ey “to attack and bash the
Catholic religion.”
Among the works in the exhib
it: “The Holy Virgin Mary” paint
ing, which depicts Mary with
dark skin, African features and
flowing robes. It includes shel
lacked clumps of elephant dung
and dozens of cutouts of female
private parts from pornographic
magazines.
The work — part of the British
“Sensation” exhibit—has fueled a
debate about freedom of expres
sion and public support of the arts.
It has also brought both financial
peril and publicity to a museum
used to operating in the shadows of
the Metropolitan Museum of Art
and other Manhattan attractions.
Cardinal John O’Connor of
New York has sided with the
mayor, while civil rights activists
have said that pulling the muse
um’s funding would violate the
First Amendment. The New York
Civil Liberties Union was plan
ning a rally to support the exhibit,
and conservative Republicans
were planning one against it.
“Virgin Mary” artist Chris Ofili,
who is noted for using elephant
dung in his works, has refused in
terviews — a stance that has done
nothing to halt the furor.
Art critic Jeffrey Hogrefe of the
New York Observer said: “They
wanted to get some publicity and
they got it.... I think it was pretty
calculated.”
The Brooklyn Museum’s direc
tor, Arnold Lehman, has been
silent. But elsewhere, opinions
about the work—even from those
who haven’t seen it — abound.
In his weekly sermon at St.
Patrick’s Cathedral, O’Connor said
he was “saddened” by what ap
pears to be an attack on the Virgin
Mary. And Gov. George Pataki said
he was grateful that no state mon
ey was involved in the exhibit.
The governor dodged the ques
tion of whether Giuliani should
cut off vital funding to the muse
um. Clinton argued that personal
reactions “should not lead to the
penalization and shutting down
of an entire museum.”
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