The new MOCA (Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art) exhibit Turn the Page, 10 Years of Hi-Fructose Mag is bringing over 50 artists from around the world to Norfolk in a truly unique show. It also, it seems, is bringing about calls to pull city funds from the arts after images from the exhibit showed up online showing what one local writer believes to be anti-Catholic in nature.
A recent editorial by one of the area’s largest papers The Virginian Pilot is calling for an end to public funding for the project over this “controversial” work.
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