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Controversial Art

Beth Fertig of member station WNYC in New York reports on the latest battle between the Brooklyn Museum of Art and New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani. This time the debate is over a painting that depicts Jesus as a naked black woman at the Last Supper. Giuliani says it's time to define the lines of decency when it comes to taxpayer funding of such controversial exhibits.

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