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The mayor was appalled, most of all by The Holy Virgin Mary, a 1996 collage by Chris Ofili, an award-winning British artist who uses elephant feces in his work. "The idea of having so-called works of art in which people are throwing elephant dung at a picture of...
--RUDY GIULIANI, criticizing an exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum of Art that includes a statue of the Virgin Mary covered in elephant dung
Indeed, her bipartisan tone leads one former Bush official to note that Rice could have ended up working for a Democratic administration. But Rice would rather see her beloved Stanford football team lose than work for a Democrat. By both upbringing and philosophy, she is a committed Republican realist in...
New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani is offended. He?s also shocked. And in a city of largely unflappable urbanites, this is big news. The mayor, a lover of opera and other more traditional art forms, is threatening to pull funding from the city's large but little-known Brooklyn...
One prize specimen, they acknowledge, is a partial skeleton found by Berkeley graduate student Yohannes Haile-Selassie (no relation to the Emperor). Alas, the back of the skull is badly crushed. A hippo or elephant probably trampled it soon after the creature died. "It looks like roadkill," quips White. Given...