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Of course, we don't want to get caught up in the intentional fallacy, and a work of art of strength should be open to a variety of interpretations, but I think there's a danger of missing the plot (and incidentally patronizing African culture) if we deny Ofili's Madonna its subversiveness, iconoclasm, and sheer naughtiness.
I would like to say, flat-out, that it is not my fear of being looked down upon by the cultured folk of the 21 st century that drives me, cowering, to say that the Ofili painting doesn't to me look like an attack on religion, vicious or otherwise.
So, for instance, what is elephant dung in the context of Ofili's painting of a Nigerian Virgin Mary?
The museum is subsidizing the Ofili painting because it is supposedly of exceptional value.
One can imagine ironic or otherwise complex readings of these statements that might attempt to cleanse them of their offensive meaning, just as the Times attempts to cleanse the Virgin Mary canvas of its offensive meaning by quoting the artist, Chris Ofili, saying it all has something to do with his childhood confusion about the virgin birth.