But it was an exhibition of stuffed kittens and paintings by Cheetah the chimpanzee that became the night's hottest ticket.
The insurance company insuring the exhibition of stuffed animals had insisted on having guard dog protection.
I'm not here to gawp at snakes in bottles, though, I'm here to see an exhibition of stuffed animals that Dr Khader has created from the beasts that were killed in the Second Intifada, the four-year period of fighting that claimed the lives of 4,000 Palestinians and more than 1,000 Israelis.
Is it an accident that the Museum of Modern Art, that temple of high modernism, is simultaneously showing two low-brow exhibitions of ordinary stuff just at the moment when the museum's paintings and sculptures are awaiting shipment to Manhattan?
The current owners have converted the bullring into a slightly dubious exhibition of Africa-related stuff, complete with some big, sculpted caricatures of tribesmen and a wall of renowned Africans that kicks off with Nelson Mandela and follows with photos of Charlize Theron and Didier Drogba.
That's when Rudolph W. Giuliani, mayor of New York at the time, called the exhibition "sick stuff" and threatened to cut city subsidies because Mr. Ofili's painting of the Virgin Mary included clumps of elephant dung.
Magnificent Obsessions Artists' collections of all kinds of stuff, from cookie jars to skulls, make for a quirky exhibition.
I really enjoy the whole ritual There is always a fantastic range of stuff, particularly theatre and performance, although there are great music and exhibitions as well.
Darger collected lots of stuff and displayed scores of pictures in his cluttered apartment, but there is nothing in this exhibition to suggest that he acquired objects he considered independent artworks.
Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani called the exhibition "sick stuff" and threatened to cut city subsidies because Chris Ofili's painting of the Virgin Mary included clumps of elephant dung.
