NY mayor Rudy Giuliani says that he can’t touch the Whitney Museum because it’s privately funded. But “as a private citizen,” he said he felt that artwork attacking him was “exaggerated political demagoguery” that does “a grave injustice to people who suffered in the Holocaust.” – New York Post
- Will Giuliani go to see this year’s Whitney Biennial? “Gee, I’ll put it on my schedule. Get my Palm Pilot,” he said sarcastically. – MSNBC
- Previously: COME AND GET US MR. MAYOR: The Whitney Biennial is about to open. You just had to know someone was going to take a poke at NY Mayor Rudy Giuliani after his pronouncements on art during last fall’s “Sensation” show at the Brooklyn Museum. ” ‘Sanitation,’ an installation by Hans Haacke, a well-known German-born New York artist, puts Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani in the company of the Nazis, with quotations by him written in the Fraktur script favored by the Third Reich and the sound of jackboots marching in the background.”- New York Times