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ven before it opens, an
upcoming exhibit on the
Holocaust at the Jewish
Museum in New York City is
causing controversy in the Jewish com-
munity.
"Mirroring Evil: Nazi Imagery/Recent
Art," to be shown at the museum start-
ing March 17, seeks to present Nazi hor-
rors in a thought-provoking manner.
But critics say the exhibit is an affront
to the Jewish community in general and
Holocaust survivors specifically.
"It's one of the most incomprehensible
lapses of judgment I have seen," said
Menachem Rosensaft,- a member of the
council of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial
Museum. "I can't think of any reason
for the Jewish Museum to put on this
show."
Anne Scher, a spokeswoman for the
museum, says the exhibit presents a
trend in the artistic world — work by
younger artists that uses Nazi imagery
"The artists ask us to examine how
images of the Nazi era shape our under-
standing of evil in our lives today. These
works lead us to question how we
understand the appalling forces that pro-
duced the Holocaust," Scher said.
Rosensaft said he would help organize
a boycott of the museum if it did not
reconsider the exhibit.

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A catalogue says the exhibit features
works by "13 internationally recognized
artists," including two Israelis.
It includes some pieces that seem
unlikely to offend, including one that
depicts how several Hollywood actors,
including Yul Brynner and Robert
Duvall, have played Nazis though the
years.
The show also includes a LEGO con-
centration camp kit and another work
showing the image of artist Alan
Schechner holding a can of Diet Coke
digitally superimposed over a photo of
Buchenwald inmates.
Another piece, Gifigas Gifiset, consists
of canisters of gas stamped with labels
that read "Tiffany," "Chanel" and
"Hermes."
Abraham Foxman, the national direc-

tor of the Anti-Defamation League, said
he would not be interested in a boycott.
But he added, "As long as there are sur-
vivors who will be hurt and offended"
by such images, exhibits like this one are
premature.
Scher said the museum, which had
spirited discussions about the exhibit
with its advisory committee, took sur-
vivors' feelings into account.
An interpretive video at the entrance
to the exhibition will include a survivor
talking about his experience, and another
video will feature survivors talking about
their responses to the exhibit. The muse-
um also will host a series of forums to
encourage public discussion of the exhibit.

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Causing Comparisons

The exhibit is raising comparisons to a
controversial 1999 exhibit, "Sensation,"
at the Brooklyn Museum of Art that
included an artwork with the Virgin
Mary dotted in dung.
That exhibit so infuriated New York's
then mayor, Rudy Giuliani, that he
withheld the city subsidy to the museum
until he was overruled by a judge.
New York's new mayor, Michael
Bloomberg, appears to be trying to
avoid his predecessor's penchant for con-
troversy.
."I don't think the government should
be in the business of telling museums
what is art or what they should exhibit,"
he told the New York Times.
The Jewish Museum receives far fewer
funds from the city than does the
Brooklyn Museum, according to the

Times.

The two exhibits are different in other
ways, the museum says in a statement,
most notably because "Sensation" simply
presented new works by London artists
without raising specific questions about
a historical event like the Holocaust.
For his part, Rosensaft said the pro-
posed boycott is not a free-speech issue.
"This is a not a First Amendment
issue. I'm not challenging [the muse-
um's] legal or constitutional right to
show whatever it wants," he said.
"However, with the right comes an
obligation and a responsibility, including
the responsibility not to be offensive to
Holocaust survivors, to families of
Holocaust victims and the Jewish com-
munity generally." ❑