Montegiordano: An Italian artist has dismantled a church in southern Italy to rebuild it at the Museum of Modern Art (Moma) in New York, ruffling feathers among heritage authorities. The pretty church in the small village of Montegiordano in Calabria, built at the end of the 19th century and later desecrated, has been carefully taken apart and wrapped up stone by stone on the orders of Italian artist Francesco Vezzoli.

It now has to be shipped to the United States where it is expected to figure in the heart of one of the world's top contemporary art museums, the Moma PS1 in the Long Island City neighbourhood of New York. But locals in the village of 2,000 inhabitants are put out over losing their church and have reportedly filed a complaint alleging the property is national heritage.

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