The Holy Virgin Mary
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The Holy Virgin Mary is a mixed media painting created by Chris Ofili in 1996 that utilizes elephant dung and naked imagery. It was one of the works included in the Sensation exhibition in London, Ber
The painting on display behind a protective screen at the Sensation exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum in 1999–2000
Museum of Old and New Art
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The Museum of Old and New Art is an art museum located within the Moorilla winery on the Berriedale peninsula in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. It is the largest privately funded museum in the Southern
The Holy Virgin Mary
…art collector David Walsh in 2007. It was included in Ofili's mid-career retrospective at Tate Britain in 2010. From 2011, it was exhibited at Walsh's Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) in Hobart, Tasmania, the largest private art museum in the Southern Hemisphere. It was sold at auction by Christie's in London on 30 June 2015…
MONA, 2015
A maze of staircases and tunnels lead between MONA's three levels of art display spaces.
The museum was built to accommodate Sidney Nolan's Snake (1970–72), a giant Rainbow Serpent mural made of 1,620 paintings.
Inverted crosses on display throughout Hobart during the 2018 Dark MOFO festival