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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPiss Trump
He's smaller than I had imagined.
The authorities used tear gas to disrupt peaceful protests outside the White House to clear a path for President Trumps walk to St. Johns Church in Washington on Monday night.Credit...Doug Mills/The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/02/us/politics/trump-holds-bible-photo.html
Surprisingly, the Bible brandished by Trump did not set his hand on fire. Photo: Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/06/peaceful-protesters-gassed-so-trump-can-do-bible-photo-op.html
Piss Christ
Immersion (Piss Christ) is a 1987 photograph by the American artist and photographer Andres Serrano. It depicts a small plastic crucifix submerged in a small glass tank of the artist's urine. The piece was a winner of the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art's "Awards in the Visual Arts" competition, which was sponsored in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, a United States Government agency that offers support and funding for artistic projects.
The work generated a large amount of controversy based on assertions that it was blasphemous. Serrano himself said of the controversy: "I had no idea Piss Christ would get the attention it did, since I meant neither blasphemy nor offense by it. I've been a Catholic all my life, so I am a follower of Christ."
Immersion (Piss Christ) is a 1987 photograph by the American artist and photographer Andres Serrano. It depicts a small plastic crucifix submerged in a small glass tank of the artist's urine. The piece was a winner of the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art's "Awards in the Visual Arts" competition, which was sponsored in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, a United States Government agency that offers support and funding for artistic projects.
The work generated a large amount of controversy based on assertions that it was blasphemous. Serrano himself said of the controversy: "I had no idea Piss Christ would get the attention it did, since I meant neither blasphemy nor offense by it. I've been a Catholic all my life, so I am a follower of Christ."
Art or Hate Speech? Video of Ants Crawling on Crucifix Pulled from Smithsonian
National Portrait Gallery removes provocative video from exhbit after outcry.
By DEVIN DWYER
December 3, 2010, 12:01 PM
Smithsonian Pulls Ants on Crucifix Video
Artist David Wojnarowicz produced 'Fire in My Belly' in 1987.
Dec. 3, 2010 -- A provocative video depicting ants crawling over a likeness of Jesus on a crucifix has been pulled from the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery, sparking a debate over art, sacrilege and freedom of speech.
The four-minute video clip -- "A Fire in My Belly" by artist David Wojnarowicz -- was part of the first national art exhibit of works featuring sexual orientation and gender identity in American art. "Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture" opened in October. It also features works by Georgia O'Keefe, Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns and Annie Leibowitz.
The video drew sharp criticism from conservative groups following publication of a CNS news service article Monday with the headline: "Smithsonian Christmas-Season Exhibit Features Ant-Covered Jesus, Naked Brothers Kissing, Genitalia, and Ellen DeGeneres Grabbing Her Breasts."
Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League, called Wojnarowicz's video "hate speech" meant to denigrate Christianity. ... Several Republican leaders, including incoming House Speaker John Boehner and Majority Leader Eric Cantor, have said they will examine taxpayer funding for the Smithsonian in the wake of the controversial display.
"Absolutely, we should look at their funds," Georgia Rep. Jack Kingston, a member of the House Appropriations Committee, told Fox News. "If they've got money to squander like this of a crucifix being eaten by ants, of Ellen DeGeneres grabbing her breasts, men in chains, naked brothers kissing then I think we should look at their budget."
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National Portrait Gallery removes provocative video from exhbit after outcry.
By DEVIN DWYER
December 3, 2010, 12:01 PM
Smithsonian Pulls Ants on Crucifix Video
Artist David Wojnarowicz produced 'Fire in My Belly' in 1987.
Dec. 3, 2010 -- A provocative video depicting ants crawling over a likeness of Jesus on a crucifix has been pulled from the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery, sparking a debate over art, sacrilege and freedom of speech.
The four-minute video clip -- "A Fire in My Belly" by artist David Wojnarowicz -- was part of the first national art exhibit of works featuring sexual orientation and gender identity in American art. "Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture" opened in October. It also features works by Georgia O'Keefe, Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns and Annie Leibowitz.
The video drew sharp criticism from conservative groups following publication of a CNS news service article Monday with the headline: "Smithsonian Christmas-Season Exhibit Features Ant-Covered Jesus, Naked Brothers Kissing, Genitalia, and Ellen DeGeneres Grabbing Her Breasts."
Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League, called Wojnarowicz's video "hate speech" meant to denigrate Christianity. ... Several Republican leaders, including incoming House Speaker John Boehner and Majority Leader Eric Cantor, have said they will examine taxpayer funding for the Smithsonian in the wake of the controversial display.
"Absolutely, we should look at their funds," Georgia Rep. Jack Kingston, a member of the House Appropriations Committee, told Fox News. "If they've got money to squander like this of a crucifix being eaten by ants, of Ellen DeGeneres grabbing her breasts, men in chains, naked brothers kissing then I think we should look at their budget."
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Piss Trump (Original Post)
mahatmakanejeeves
Jun 2020
OP
leftieNanner
(15,110 posts)1. How about
Piss ON Trump.
And geez, can't the man find a tailor to make him a pair of trousers that don't look like they just came out of the clothes dryer??
tblue37
(65,377 posts)2. Watch the video of him walking across Lafayette Park. His trouser legs flap sloppily, while everyone
else has neat tapering and no flapping.
Brainfodder
(6,423 posts)3. He's small alright, on multiple levels.