Parody

...The Taliban, a cutting-edge group whose artistic aims include conceptually redefining women as house pets, issued a statement saying that they are looking forward to “Sensation II” and are specially preparing a major installation work for the show which will seek to question and subvert the museum space and the surrounding hegemonic, Eurocentric, logocentric cultural space, employing the traditional materials of Taliban folk art, including dynamite caps, fuses, and lit matches...

...Parody Brooklyn Museum to Feature Taliban Show By LAWRENCE KLEPP The Brooklyn Museum of Art will mount a major exhibition, titled “Sensation II,” of the work of the controversial young Afghan group known as the Taliban, according to museum officials...

...They’re nothing if not transgressive...

...We consider the Taliban very important artists,” said museum director Arnold Lehman...

...But hey, at least it’s a major religion, and we feel this early phase of the Taliban’s oeuvre has the kind of incredible potential for greatness that you rarely see outside a Hirst cow carcass or an Ofili dung impasto...

...Asked for comment, museum officials reaffirmed their commitment to freedom of expression and the significance of...

...Buddhism is really hot right now and, like, totally sacred, thanks to Hollywood, and we would hate to offend anyone there or in other Buddhist cultures...

...We would have preferred something a little more, um, Catholic, frankly,” he said...

...The work is tentatively entitled “Purée of Infidel...

...And as I pointed out during the controversy over the original ‘Sensation’ show in 1999, ‘It’s part of the challenge that artists of our time present us with, because they all seem to abhor complacency.’ With ‘Sensation II’ we continue the Brooklyn Museum’s mission of offering the public extremely abhorring art...

...The fact that the Taliban have destroyed Buddhist sculptures in Afghanistan is “regrettable,” another museum official, speaking anonymously, conceded...