UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, September 14, 1994
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Nuns' exhibit shows all
The Associated Press
SAN ANTONIO — Sculptures of genitalia. A painting of an angel having intercourse on an altar.
Madonna's next book? Try the latest exhibit at an art gallery run by Roman Catholic nuns.
The nuns and the Archdiocese of San Antonio have been besieged by irate callers. The archbishop has declared himself "highly offended, insulted and hurt at this art."
And yesterday, one day after the exhibit opened, it was shut down until further notice for review by the religious order that operates the gallery.
"We apologize for any confusion or hurt that the community has felt," said Edna Perez-Vega, representative for the Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word, an order of about 500 nuns throughout the United States, Mexico
and Peru.
The exhibit of works by Houston artist Donell Hill, titled "Spiritual, Sensual, Sexual," opened on Monday at a renovated century-old barn called ReBarn — A Center For Spirituality and Art.
Sister Alice Holden, the gallery's director, said that she prayed before the exhibit went up and decided the work should be shown because "sexuality is a tremendous gift from God."
"I am very much opposed to pornography," she said. "Yet, I do not believe (this exhibit) is pornography. It's a sacred rendition of the beauty of sexuality."
John Gallaher, a 65-year-old Catholic who saw a photo of the work in the newspaper, had a different take on it.
I've never seen such a sacrilegious pornographic display in a Catholic
institution in my life," he said. Gallerah showed up at the gallery yesterday to see the work for himself but found the gallery closed.
The order received about 100 angry calls in the last two days. The archdiocese, which doesn't oversee the nuns, said it received hundreds.
Among the works are flesh-colored clay sculptures of genitalia in flower-like formations, and oil paintings depicting sexual intercourse.
"I was personally shocked to see on television and in the printed media that the nuns' gallery exhibit links sex and faith," Archbishop Patrick F. Flores said in a statement.
Ms. Hill acknowledged she was surprised the nuns wanted to exhibit her work. "They're in tune with their higher selves. They know that it's right, even if it a little scary. I think that takes courage," she said.
Israel, PLO resolve aid dispute
The Associated Press
OSLO, Norway — Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and PLO leader Yasser Arafat resolved the thorny issue of development aid for the Palestinian territories yesterday.
years.
After an afternoon of talks in Oslo, where both men came to mark the one-year anniversary of the Mideast peace accord, Arafat and Peres agreed in a 14-point document to stick by the declaration of principles under which Jerusalem's status would not be discussed for two more
The agreement, signed immediately after a concert honoring the peace breakthrough a year ago, was expected to put to rest recent bickering over the status of Jerusalem, even though the city is never mentioned by name in the final version.
"The two sides, Israel and the PLO, declared their commitment to fully implement the declaration of principles," the document stated.
Peres and Arafat were meeting privately and with Norwegian and U.N.
officials to discuss, among other things, $2.3 billion in development aid for the Palestinian territories. That is the amount pledged by 43 countries at a donors' conference last year.
Palestinian negotiators in Paris last week demanded to use part of the money for health and education programs in East Jerusalem. Israel objected, saying any issue on Jerusalem was off limits until 1996, under the peace accord. Since then, the talks had been stalled.
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