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BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS v. CITY OF NEW YORK

No. 99 CV 6071.

64 F.Supp.2d 184 (1999)

THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES, Plaintiff, v. THE CITY OF NEW YORK and Rudolph W. Giuliani, individually and in his official capacity as Mayor of the City of New York, Defendants.

United States District Court, E.D. New York.

November 1, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Floyd Abrams, Susan Buckley, Cahill, Gordon & Reindel, New York City, for Plaintiff.

Michael D. Hess, Leonard Koerner, City of New York Law Dept., New York City, for Defendants.

Opinion and Order

GERSHON, District Judge.

The Mayor of the City of New York has decided that a number of works in the Brooklyn Museum's currently showing temporary exhibit "Sensation: Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection" are "sick" and "disgusting" and, in particular, that one work, a painting entitled "The Holy Virgin Mary" by Chris Ofili, is offensive to Catholics and is an attack on religion. As a result, the City has withheld funds...

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