Not a Parody
Not a Parody Excerpts from the New York Times coverage of the opening of "Sensation," an exhibit of new art at the Brooklyn Museum of Art Many people, of course, gathered in front of the...
...The Brooklyn Museum is more than just one work of art that incorporates animal dung...
...I was surprised how pretty, how lyrical, h°w sympathetic it is," he said...
...Art collector Peter] Norton, for one, was quite taken with the "Virgin Mary...
...Museum curator Arnold L. Lehman] qufckly turned serious, saying: "Public funding °f the arts is an investment in the values and the ideals embodied in the First Amendment of the United States Constitution...
...It has the gtowing quality of cloisonne or terrazzo...
...Not a Parody Excerpts from the New York Times coverage of the opening of "Sensation," an exhibit of new art at the Brooklyn Museum of Art Many people, of course, gathered in front of the now-famous painting "The Holy Vkgm Mary," which is festooned with elephant dung and has become the centerpiece of the dispute between the city and the museum...
...The exhibit also contains several pieces by Damien Hirst, who works mostly in dead fish and animals...
...These include a shark, a sliced-up cow, a lamb and a bisected pig in formaldehyde-filled cases and a Rube Goldberg-like device m which maggots feed on a dead cow's head and give birth to flies, which are eventually zapped by an electrical device called an "insect-o-cutoi...
Vol. 5 • October 1999 • No. 4
