OOPS, SHE DID IT AGAIN.(art critic Camille Paglia criticizes painter)

A year and a half after the headline-making Sensation exhibit, the Brooklyn Museum of Art has sparked yet another controversy involving art, religion, freedom of expression, the role of the museum, and, not leas! of all, the nature of art criticism--which the philosopher Arthur Danto not long ago characterized as "a form of zealous howling." In the case of both Brooklyn shows, one of the most zealous howlers has been New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani.

When Sensation opened, he threatened to cut off public funding for the museum, an initiative soon extinguished by the ...

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