LAST SUPPER PHOTO FUROR.(controversy over photography exhibition)(Brief Article)
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Date: 3/12/2001
LAST SUPPER PHOTO FUROR: Photographer Renee Cox talks to the media in front of her five-panel color photo, Yo Mama's Last Supper, at the Brooklyn Museum of Art in New York. Cox's photo of Jesus as a naked Black woman surrounded by 12 Black apostles that mimics the poses of Jesus' disciples in Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper has stirred a debate at the same museum where a dung-decorated painting of the Virgin Mary sparked a six-month legal battle (JET, Oct. 18, 1999). "Get over ...
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