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MoMA Acquires The Painting That Provoked Rudy Giuliani To Try To Shut Down The Brooklyn Museum by Artsjournal1

Billionaire Steve Cohen is donating Chris Ofili's The Holy Virgin Mary to New York's Museum of Modern Art. "The canvas stirred controversy at the Brooklyn Museum during the 1999 'Sensation' exhibition of works by the Young British Artists from the collection of advertising mogul Charles Saatchi. Giuliani criticized Ofili's painting as an affront to Catholics. […]

SOURCE: Bloomberg at 09:48AM on April 19, 2018

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