They cancelled Chocolate Jesus show

[Fresh_Start]

I guess they'll have to go with the 20,000 photos of Priests that abused children instead.

[tularetom]

1. So what are they gonna do with him now? Eat him?

I want to see pictures of some chick bitin off his weenie.

[malaise]

4. Might be a priest

although the chocolate Jesus is probably too old.

[TahitiNut]

10. Why not? That's the eucharist.

:shrug:

[malaise]

2. I thought the exhibition was so appropriate

After all Easter has long been more about chocolates than their Jesus. Where's that great DUers bunny on the cross when I need it.

[lapfog_1]

3. Sculpture to be titled "My Semi-Sweet Lord"??? -n/t

[Richard Steele]

12. Y'know, that's WRONG, what you said there.

SHAME on you for making me laugh until I choked!

[KansDem]

5. Dark or milk chocolate? (eom)

[Greyskye]

6. what?

[RedStateShame]

7. I really wanted to see him, Lord, but it takes so long....

Yes, the statue was called "My Sweet Lord," I think.

[HockeyMom]

8. I've seen chocolate crucifixes,

with Jesus on them, but then they weren't aromatically correct, or 6 feet tall. Actually, this art sculpture I get; My Sweet (chocolate) Lord. I never did understand the Madonna/Cow Dung exhibit. I guess Art is in the eye of the beholder.

[TlalocW]

14. I think it was elephant dung

And the elephant dung is actually a compliment in the atist's culture (he was from Africa).

TlalocW

[NYCGirl]

9. How Giuliani of them.

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1248/is_12_87/ai_58360959

On Nov. 1, the U.S. District Court in Brooklyn ruled that Mayor Rudolph Giuliani violated the First Amendment rights of the Brooklyn Museum of Art when he cut city funding because he found some of the works on view in "Sensation: Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection" offensive, particularly Chris Ofili's The Holy Virgin Mary . As we go to press, the story is rapidly unfolding. In her 38-page decision granting a preliminary injunction, Judge Nina Gershon ordered the mayor and the city to restore funding to the museum and to cease attempts to evict it from its city-owned building or to interfere in any manner with the museum's board. In spite of the ruling, thE; city withheld the museum's November payment, as it did October's. The judge rejected the city's request to put the monthly payments (which average $500,000) into an escrow account while it appeals the injunction. She ordered the city to immediately pay the museum.

The city had attempted to have the museum's federal case dismissed, asserting that the First Amendment issue could be determined by the New York state court that will hear its lease-violation case against the museum. Gershon denied the city's request for a dismissal, stating that Giuliani's lease allegations are "purely pretextual." She added: "There is no federal constitutional issue more grave than the effort by government officials to censor works of expression and to threaten the vitality of a major cultural institution, as punishment for failing to abide by governmental demands for orthodoxy."

Giuliani, never one to admit defeat, said, "the judge is totally out of control ... she's lost all reason." He immediately accused Gershon of rushing her decision in order to prevent the city, which is claiming that museum officials concealed documents, from investigating the funding of "Sensation." The city is now focusing on the ethics of a public institution soliciting funds from those with a commercial interest in promoting the exhibition, including Charles Saatchi (who contributed $160,000 toward the $2-million cost of the show), the auction house Christie's (which provided $50,000 and has handled sales of Saatchi-owned works in the past), various dealers whose artists are included in the exhibition, and David Bowie (who donated $75,000 and whose Web site is the exhibition's only on-line venue, although there is no merchandise there directly related to the show). Gershon wrote that since concern over the museum's exhibition financing practices was only raised by the city on Sept. 29, after the museum had already filed its suit, the city's action in state court was therefore "conceived and initiated ... to pressure the museum" and that it is "part of an ongoing effort to retaliate against and deter exercise of First Amendment rights." In response to Giuliani's attack on Gershon, the Association of Trial Lawyers of America issued a statement saying that "it has become a disturbing trend that a few public officials and candidates try to make political points by unfairly attacking the judiciary and the fair administration of justice."

[cassiepriam]

11. But the Iraq War doesn't get canceled.

[edbermac]

13. The 'terrorists' have won.

[Goblinmonger]

15. I can't believe that group of whiney catholics got their way.

What a crock of shit.

[Monk06]

16. The best publicity an artist can get is a cancelled show. n/t

[PreacherCasey]

17. The "REAL" Chocolate Jesus. Watch it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wfamPW3Eaw

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

18. If they melt it and smear it on an underpass, it'll be a place of pigrimage.

[Quixote1818]

19. Jesus was crucified totally naked

Actually, Michael Angelo once did a sculpture of a naked Jesus. That sculpture is still in some church in Rome, however it now has a cloth on.

Are they offended by him being naked or being chocolate?



Here are some other tasteless works of art!!!!