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NEW YORK _ Say what you will about the art. The question is whether morally ambiguous or politically offensive work deserves a place in respectable museums.
The Jewish Museum, in New York, will exhibit March 17-June 30 "Mirroring Evil: Nazi Imagery/Recent Art," a show that has already aroused considerable controversy. A Lego concentration camp set, a display of cyanide-gas canisters with Tiffany and Chanel logos and a host of conceptually similar pieces will be featured, the intent being to infuse images of the Holocaust with those of pornography, kitsch and mass production.
In an inflammatory article in the Jan. 17 Forward, "How Pseudo-Artists ...