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The problem remains: Do we, should we, bother with evaluative comparisons and contextualizations with an artist like Chris Ofili whose agenda seems to be anti-aesthetic, and whose context is much more the current sensations of pop music and fashion with which he vies in terms of energy and verve, than the old masters, the "strong and durable" art admired by Cézanne in the Louvre, and by many of us in the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum?
Remember, the Virgin Mary may be a timeless symbol, but she is also a flesh-and-blood woman, and Ofili is hardly the first artist to eroticize the Virgin.
In connection with Chris Ofili's painting [in her first Newsweek column], she invokes Joyce and Lawrence but fails to mention that neither was publicly funded.
Ofili is a black Roman Catholic, and to my mind the picture represents an earnest attempt to appropriate the Virgin for black culture.
etc., all fascinating issues, but leaving anyone concerned with art obliged to argue for basic artists' rights rather than attending to more localized and interesting issues, like is Chris Ofili any good?