Brooklyn Museum

[Will Linden]

On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, Sandy Levinson wrote:

> Does it cause Mr. Williams (or any other critic of the Brooklyn Museum
> exhibition) any difficulty that the artist in question, Chris Olfil,
> is, by all accounts, a believing Catholic who sees his painting as a
> way of joining specific African traditions, in which elephant dung is
> not "mere" excrement, with more typical Western traditions of
> depicting the Madonna?  That is, there is no evidence whatsoever that
> the artist intended to insult Catholics.  (This may not be the case
 And what about the cutouts of female genitalia, which keep being
overlooked in the "debate"? I can only feel that the artists involved were
either disingenuous or incredibly naive.

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