Please respond to the question below
1 - How might you feel now?
2 - What about the controversies that happened?
3 - Do you agree and/or disagree with some of the sentiments expressed, say by Rudy Giuliani and/or the Catholic Church regarding Ofili's artworks being presented in a public museum?
4 - What about the cultural context of these artworks?
We now know that Ofili is English with a family history of being from Nigeria, Africa.
5 - What about his cultural heritage is reflected in his works?
6 - Is the formalist content of his artworks offensive to you?
"Yet when Ofili recently won 20,000 pounds sterling as part of the Tate Gallery's noted Turner Prize, reaction was ill-humored indeed: The Web site ArtNetsnobbily commented that Ofili is "known for garishly colored, ethnic-naive paintings with chunks of elephant dung attached to their surfaces." The assessment echoed a Brit tabloid's headline about a previous show at the Royal Academy featuring Ofili's work: "Foul Porn Invades Brit Art Gallery." An enraged British military draughtsman dumped a wheelbarrow of cow manure on the sidewalk in front of the exhibit, to prove that "modern art is a load of bullshit." It's a sentiment with which Ofili himself might agree."
7 - If you were the curator at the U of O Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art would you encourage or discourage an exhibit of Chris Ofili's works? Why? Why not?
8 - What have you learned through this experience?