Word: hindley
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...another gallery sits Marcus Harvey's huge grisaille portrait of an English child abuser and murderer, Myra Hindley, whose image is composed of child-size handprints. Proving that local politics tends to make all art local, it is this work, rather than Ofili's Holy Virgin, that prompted an outcry in London, where "Sensation" first appeared two years ago at the Royal Academy of Arts. And yet, like Ofili's work, Myra is hardly an astonishment, looking like a wobbly send-up of a picture by the American painter Chuck Close. People in New York, ignorant of her crimes, will...
...animals will never mistake this show for an Impressionist retrospective: Ofili?s work "The Holy Virgin Mary" features a religious icon strategically smeared with elephant dung. Harvey?s piece "Myra" consistently evokes protest wherever it is shown; the painting uses children?s handprints to depict infamous child murderer Myra Hindley. With headliners like these, it?s not surprising that the museum has slapped an "R" rating on the exhibit, and no one under the age of 16 will be admitted without a parent. Of course, most parents will probably stand, flabbergasted, as their children blithely flit through the exhibit, listening...