Art Review The 59th iteration captures some of the excitement of earlier exhibitions, providing vital commentary on issues of authoritarianism and militarism. Painting from Khalil Rabah’s 2025 series Making a Right Heart , oil on canvas (all photos Ed Simon/ Hyperallergic ) PITTSBURGH — When the landmark exhibition Sensation: Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection launched at the Brooklyn Museum in 1999, artist Chris Ofili became a major player in the scrum of the culture wars. Ofili’s “The Holy Virgin Mary” (1996), a colorful, yellow-toned mixed-media painting of the mother of Christ collaged with images of women’s genitalia excised from pornographic magazines, and supported by a stand composed of two lumps of dried elephant dung, was deemed by then New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani as “ sick … disgusting ,” and a “desecration of someone else’s religion” (Ofili, like Giuliani, is Roman Catholic).…