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18 Oct 2007 01:36:50 AM |
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Naked chocolate Jesus rises again in New York |
He is risen!
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Naked chocolate Jesus rises again in New York
By Daniel TrottaWed Oct 17, 11:58 AM ET
A life-size chocolate sculpture of a naked Jesus will finally be
displayed in New York starting in late October, seven months after an
outcry by Roman Catholics forced a different gallery to cancel its
exhibition.
The chocolate Jesus will be joined by sculptures of several fully
clothed saints, but the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights
said it will not protest because, unlike before, there are no plans to
put the "anatomically correct" Jesus in public view during Holy Week.
The Proposition gallery in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood will present
"Chocolate Saints ... Sweet Jesus," an exhibition timed to coincide with
All Saints' Day on November 1. The show will run October 27 to November
24.
Back in March, the chocolate Jesus by artist Cosimo Cavallaro was to be
exhibited in a street-level window of the Roger Smith Lab Gallery in
Midtown Manhattan, giving casual passers-by a view of Jesus's private
parts.
Protests, including a call to boycott the affiliated Roger Smith Hotel,
forced the gallery to scrap the showing.
"We still don't approve but the conditions have changed," said Kiera
McCaffrey, spokeswoman for the Catholic organization.
The new exhibition will take place indoors in a neighborhood full of art
galleries, she said.
Images on the Proposition gallery's Web site
(http://www.theproposition.com/wp/chocolate-saints-sweet-jesus/) show
the work suspended in air, depicting Jesus as if on the cross.
A gallery statement said Cavallaro was raised as a Catholic altar boy
and questioned church precepts but always held a fondness for Holy
Communion.
"Remembering the mystical/transcendental quality and rushes of memory
associated with the Catholic wafer received during Holy Communion, he
recalls equating that ritual of ecstasy to his own experience of
chocolate," the statement said.
The flap recalled another New York clash between art and religion. In
1999, then-Mayor Rudolph Giuliani tried to withdraw a grant from the
Brooklyn Museum of Art over a painting depicting the Virgin Mary as a
black woman splattered with elephant dung and adorned with cut-outs from
pornographic magazines.
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| User: "Al Klein" |
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| Title: Re: Naked chocolate Jesus rises again in New York |
18 Oct 2007 02:15:29 PM |
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On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 23:36:50 -0700, johac
<jhachmann@remove.sbcglobal.net> wrote:
"We still don't approve but the conditions have changed," said Kiera
McCaffrey, spokeswoman for the Catholic organization.
So where's IBenCraplik telling them to chill?
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Al at Webdingers dot com
If you are open to the point of gullibility and have not an
ounce of skeptical sense in you, then you cannot distinguish
the useful ideas from the worthless ones
- Carl Sagan, 1987.
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| User: "johac" |
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| Title: Re: Naked chocolate Jesus rises again in New York |
19 Oct 2007 01:09:14 AM |
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In article <m5cfh3tblqnqo1bhi1h8r7mb7sa9ntgrd3@4ax.com>,
Al Klein <rukbat@pern.invalid> wrote:
On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 23:36:50 -0700, johac
<jhachmann@remove.sbcglobal.net> wrote:
"We still don't approve but the conditions have changed," said Kiera
McCaffrey, spokeswoman for the Catholic organization.
So where's IBenCraplik telling them to chill?
Who knows. Probably "enjoying" the sculpture.
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John #1782
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