By: Mahlon Martin
In Brooklyn Christian leaders are riled over an exhibit the say is offensive that’s in the Brooklyn Museum of Arts. Even though the museum is known for edgy exhibits, it’s still going to go ahead as plan and open the exhibits next week. According to the New York Daily News, Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn has sent a letter to the museum asking that the video be removed from the exhibit.
In 1999 Catholic leaders and former Mayor Rudy Giuliani ran up against the Brooklyn Museum when they exhibited an painting that featured the Virgin Mary with a clump of elephant dung and cutout images of female genitalia. The Mayor tried to cut public funding from the museum.
I think that the museum shouldn’t be able to go through with the exhibit because so many people are offended by it. But I can also see the museum’s way because the people that thinks it’s offensive don’t have to go to see it.
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Quite a nice article Mahlon. Just to be curious have people tried to close the museum completely.
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What is the exhibit?
Though it’s offensive, I still think that it should be put through. It’s not a democracy; it’s a museum. I think that art is art and people should accept that. There needs to be a separation of church and art that doesn’t affect the pieces themselves…….