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What other “shocking” arts are happening in our culture today? Choose from the movies, radio, tv, visual arts, performing arts or literature.

Art 330 mod 8 discussion The controversial painting entitled Holy Virgin Mary by Chris Ofili, exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum in 1999, was called blasphemous and caused demonstrations for its removal. Knowing that Western artists have deliberately sought to shock entrenched, mainstream values, did this work of art succeed in doing so? Why or why […]