Article: Santa Fe Madonna Sparks Firestorm.(Brief Article)

An art work depicting Our Lady of Guadalupe--the popular Hispanic image of the Virgin Mary--on view at the Museum of International Folk Art, a branch of Santa Fe's Museum of New Mexico, has stirred a heated local controversy comparable to the one caused by Chris Ofili's Madonna in the Brooklyn Museum's "Sensation" show two years ago [see "Front Page," Nov. '99]. Included in the current Santa Fe exhibition "Cyber Arte: Tradition Meets Technology," Our Lady, a computerized photo collage by California artist Alma Lopez, portrays the Virgin wearing a bikini made of roses; held aloft by a buxom, bare-breasted angel, she gazes out defiantly. Although rather tame compared to ...

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