Controversial Art Exhibit Ends Run
From Times Wire Reports
Art lovers and the morbidly curious flocked to the Brooklyn Museum in large numbers for a last look at the controversial “Sensation” art exhibit with its dung-decorated Madonna. As the crowd swelled on the final day of the exhibit’s three-month run, about two dozen demonstrators stood outside, singing hymns and reciting “Hail Mary,” a Catholic prayer, in protest of what they say is a blasphemous painting of the Virgin Mary.
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