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SFCC pulls art after complaints, vandalism
The New Mexican December 1, 1999 (By Daniel J. Chacon)

An overwhelming outpouring of complaint coupled with vandalism to a painting of a crucified gorilla has prompted Santa Fe Community College to remove the artwork from public display...

The painting, which depicts a gorilla nailed to a cross, will be relocated from the college's 4-month-old Visual Arts Center to a more secure area. Steinhoff said the painting is not sacrilegious; rather, it symbolizes the destruction humans are carrying out against animals and the Earth...

The complaints and vandalism surfaced soon after a Catholic church group from Cerrillos protested the painting as well as the movie Dogma on Sunday afternoon...