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Sensation: The Madonna, the Mayor, the Media and the First Amendment (Hardcover)
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Death and bomb threats over an art exhibition! A major battle with
the mayor of New York City and the New York Times! Looking back,
Arnold Lehman, director of the Brooklyn Museum, and his colleagues
were not prepared for what was to happen. No one could have
anticipated that SENSATION: Young British Artists from the Saatchi
Collection would become the biggest art story in the history of art
history. It has taken him two decades to fully absorb and clearly
reflect on what happened at the Brooklyn Museum in 1999-2000. The
intense controversy swept the exhibition, the museum, and Chris
Ofili's The Holy Virgin Mary painting to international attention
for six months. While 175,000 people saw the exhibition and
millions read and heard about it daily, they never knew of the
threats and challenges that kept the museum staff awake at night.
Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who never saw the painting, focused his rage
at The Holy Virgin Mary; rescinded the museum's municipal funding
to force it to close the exhibition; and attempted to evict it from
its hundred-year-old landmark. The city's most conservative media
and ultra-religious groups inflamed the conflict. SENSATION,
selected from controversial collector Charles Saatchi's
contemporary British art collection, was first shown at London's
Royal Academy in 1997, to an outcry over the portrait of child
murderer Myra Hindley. Its opening at the Brooklyn Museum in 1999
drew tabloid headlines such as B'klyn gallery of horror Gruesome
museum show, and Butchered animals, a dung-smeared Mary and giant
genitalia; The New York Times accused the museum of wrongdoing in
high-profile but often false and inaccurate investigative reports,
most dismissed earlier by the court. In a story as gripping as a
fictional thriller, the mayor and city eventually settled with the
museum, awarding it a permanent injunction, the restoration of city
money, and substantial funds for its new entrance. AUTHOR: Arnold
Lehman is Director Emeritus of the Brooklyn Museum and Senior
Advisor at Phillips auction house.
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Imprint: |
Merrell Publishers Ltd
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
September 2021 |
Authors: |
Arnold Lehman
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Dimensions: |
245 x 180 x 30mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
248 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-85894-696-2 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
1-85894-696-4 |
Barcode: |
9781858946962 |
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