Word: exhibit
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...only ideas and beliefs are challenged. However, both Giuliani and Kabala seem to feel that the subject of religion is somehow sacred and should forever remain unchallenged. Maybe it is because they are scared of what they might discover. Is it not possible that by viewing the offending "Sensation" exhibit, visitors might be able to enhance their understanding of their religion? That by viewing the art, which is so personally offensive, one might be able to better understand or even challenge their personal and religious beliefs? It is unfortunate that Giuliani and Kabala are willing to take the risk...
...speck of elephant dung be moved up or down on the Holy Mother's breast? To the left or right of that pornographic snippet in the background? These are the kind of questions New Yorkers got to ask starting Oct. 2, when the Brooklyn Museum of Art opened the exhibit "Sensation" to the public...
...greater than the aesthetic or moral shock of the exhibit may be its political repercussions. Here New York Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani has raised a stink of his own. The mayor cut the museums municipal funding of $7 million annually, citing his belief that public funding should not subsidize the establishment or desecration of religion...
...that is true, Proposition 187 might be Exhibit A. The intent of the voter-approved 1994 ballot measure was to deny state aid to illegal immigrants. Davis opposed it as lieutenant governor, and it was declared largely unconstitutional by federal courts. But its backers appealed, and this spring, Davis kept 187 alive by asking a federal court to send it to a mediator. "The obvious interpretation," Pete Wilson, head cheerleader for 187, told the Los Angeles Times, "is that he is trying to have it both ways...
...Senator Robert Smith that called for an end to federal funding for the museum. Trying not to alienate either camp, Hillary Clinton, Giuliani's likely opponent for New York's Senate seat, chided the mayor for threatening to shut down the museum but added, "There are parts of this exhibit that would be deeply offensive. I would not go to see this exhibit...