COURIER LIFE'S | BROOKLYN DAILY
By
Shaavana Abruzzo
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"Stop Islam. Islam has to stop killing people by stoning."
by Ahmed Mashhouri (2009) |
NEW YORK - Art wouldn’t be art if it wasn’t contentious, but to truly shock and awe, it must also be new and revolutionary. The Brooklyn Museum’s latest “Christ” exhibit, depicting an ant-encrusted Jesus as part of a collection of gay identity portraiture, is neither provocative nor rebellious — nor new — even though the ho-hum archive defends it as “an expression of the artist’s outrage at indifference to human suffering.” The Brooklyn Museum needs some fresh blood on its walls, and Iranian artist and human rights activist
Ahmed Mashhouri might be among the visionaries to provide it. The Brooklyn Museum should also lead the charge with the work of Australian revisionist
Sergio Redegalli, who has received death threats for a mural he painted outside his Sydney studio of a burqa-clad woman, bearing the slogan, “Say no to burqas.” [
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| "Say No to Burquas" by Sergio Redegalli |
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