The recent uproar over Brett Murray's painting of South African President Jacob Zuma The Spear in his latest exhibition Hail to the Thief II at Johannesburg's posh Goodman Gallery is simultaneously uplifting and depressing. The painting, which shows a Bolshevik Zuma with his genitals protruding from his suit, has been met by a phenomenal media and political storm.
South Africa: In a Flurry Over Murray - Painting of Zuma Has South Africans in a Tizz
African Arguments, 24 May 2012
The recent uproar over Brett Murray's painting of South African President Jacob Zuma The Spear in his latest exhibition Hail to the Thief II at Johannesburg's posh Goodman Gallery is simultaneously uplifting and depressing. The painting, which shows a Bolshevik Zuma with his genitals protruding from his suit, has been met by a phenomenal media and political storm.
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