Giuliani Touts Decency Panel In New York.New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. Mayor Rudolph Giuliani (R) has created a "decency panel" to review art displayed in publicly funded museums and galleries. Giuliani was motivated to create the panel, formally known as the Cultural Affairs Advisory Commission, following a series of controversies over religious art the mayor described as anti-Catholic. For example, Giuliani opposed a Brooklyn Museum of Art Brooklyn Museum of Art, museum in the borough of Brooklyn, N.Y. Its predecessors were the Brooklyn Apprentices' Library (1823), the Brooklyn Institute (1843), and the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences (1890). exhibition last year featuring a painting of the Virgin Mary Virgin Mary: see Mary. Virgin Mary immaculately conceived; mother of Jesus Christ. [N.T.: Matthew 1:18–25; 12:46–50; Luke 1:26–56; 11:27–28; John 2; 19:25–27] See : Purity that included an element of elephant dung. The image was created by Chris Ofili Chris Ofili (born 1968) is an English born painter noted for artworks referencing aspects of his Nigerian heritage. He is one of the Young British Artists. He is a Turner Prize winner and his work has been a source of controversy. , a Catholic Nigerian artist. The mayor's panel features 20 appointees, including Raoul Felder, Giuliani's divorce attorney, and Roderick Caesar Sr., pastor of Bethel Gospel Tabernacle Tabernacle (tăb`ərnăk'əl), in the Bible, the portable holy place of the Hebrews during their desert wanderings. It was a tent, like the portable tent-shrines used by ancient Semites, set up in each camp; eventually it housed the Ark in Jamaica, N.Y. Among the panel's chief responsibilities will be recommending decency standards for the city's museums and, according to the mayor, addressing "whether or not there should be a different assessment made when public dollars are being used than when private dollars are being used" for pieces of art in city museums. |
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