Brooklyn Museum
Encyclopedic Beaux-Arts museum with ancient Egyptian, African, and contemporary American art.
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This guide to the Brooklyn Museum turns on the fall of 1999, when Mayor Rudy Giuliani declared war on a Chris Ofili painting of the Virgin Mary and threatened to cut the museum's city funding unless the show was cancelled. It covers director Arnold Lehman's lawsuit, First Amendment lawyer Floyd Abrams, and a visitor named Dennis Heiner, who approached the canvas one December day with a can of paint.
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