Art and Religion Debated in New York

385827 07: Photographer Renee Cox disputes a point February 20, 2001 with William A. Donahue, president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights during a forum on art and religion at the First Amendment Center in New York. Cox's "Yo Mama's Last Supper," which depicts Cox nude as Christ surrounded by 12 black apostles is part of an exhibit titled "Committed to the Image: Contemporary Black Photographers" on display at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. The work is stirring debate at the same museum where a dung-decorated painting of the Virgin Mary sparked a heated six-month legal battle in 1999. New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani began assembling a task force to monitor "decency'''' in tax-sponsored art exhibits. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Newsmakers)
385827 07: Photographer Renee Cox disputes a point February 20, 2001 with William A. Donahue, president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights during a forum on art and religion at the First Amendment Center in New York. Cox's "Yo Mama's Last Supper," which depicts Cox nude as Christ surrounded by 12 black apostles is part of an exhibit titled "Committed to the Image: Contemporary Black Photographers" on display at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. The work is stirring debate at the same museum where a dung-decorated painting of the Virgin Mary sparked a heated six-month legal battle in 1999. New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani began assembling a task force to monitor "decency'''' in tax-sponsored art exhibits. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Newsmakers)
Art and Religion Debated in New York
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