Controversial Art Exhibit Ends Run

Art lovers and the morbidly curious flocked to the Brooklyn Museum in large numbers for a last look at the controversial “Sensation” art exhibit with its dung-decorated Madonna. As the crowd swelled on the final day of the exhibit’s three-month run, about two dozen demonstrators stood outside, singing hymns and reciting “Hail Mary,” a Catholic prayer, in protest of what they say is a blasphemous painting of the Virgin Mary.