New York’s bully in chief meets his match: ” ‘Yo Mama’ artist Renée Cox won’t let adulterer Rudy
Giuliani use Catholicism to beat her up.”

Mayor Rudy Giuliani is taking another shot at the
Brooklyn Museum of Art, wrinkling his pointy little nose
and spitting out labels like “outrageous,” “disgusting” and
“anti-Catholic.” Again he’s accusing the Brooklyn Museum,
which a little more than a year ago raised his ire by
including Chris Ofili’s “Holy Virgin Mary” accessorized
with elephant dung in its “Sensation” exhibit, of being
deliberately inflammatory and defaming the Roman
Catholic Church in order to increase museum attendance.

The current object of Giuliani’s indignation, which, again,
he has not yet seen in person, is a series of photographs by
artist Renée Cox called “Yo Mama’s Last Supper.” Cox’s
depiction of the biblical scene differs from, say, Leonardo
da Vinci’s in that all the disciples are black. What’s more —
and here’s what presumably has Giuliani really upset — Cox
herself poses, naked and lovely, with arms outstretched, in
Christ’s place. Salon