Show Vezzoli at PS1 canceled
It was a typically elaborate, provocative move by the Italian artist Francesco Vezzoli. He had contracted to buy the ruins of an old deconsecrated church in the southern Italian town of Montegiordano and had planned to ship them to New York, brick by brick, for exhibition in the courtyard of MoMA PS1. But “The Church of Vezzoli,” as the exhibition was to be called, was canceled Monday in the midst of a legal imbroglio in Italy. Local prosecutors are evaluating whether Mr. Vezzoli was trying to export items of artistic and cultural value without authorization.
