Posted on 09/21/2012 3:08:03 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
The controversial Piss Christ artwork Sen. Alfonse DAmato once branded as a deplorable, despicable display of vulgarity, is coming to New York, and security is being heavily ramped- up at the gallery that will show the piece. Andres Serranos work a photograph of the crucifix submerged in the artists urine first ignited controversy in 1989 when DAmato complained to the US Senate that it was an outrage, an indignity and a piece of trash that had been funded by taxpayers. Serrano had won a $15,000 prize for his work, backed in part by the National Endowment for the Arts But the piece which will be on display as part of a retrospective of the New York artists work at Edward Tyler Nahem gallery beginning Thursday is still causing controversy over two decades later.
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Oh. Over the years, low-talent gay grant obtainers who live only to offend, safe in the knowledge that they don’t live in Libya, tend to blur together.
Based on the resultant rioting and killing in the islamic world over an alleged movie trailer that nobody saw, we should probably engineer a “piss mohammad” piece of artwork or equivalent every other day, so these nutballs would continuously kill themselves until they no longer present a problem.
A waste of good urine...
“He adds, the situation around NEA funding that Piss Christ ignited never got better . . . the budget of the NEA was slashed in half. There seems to be a sort of dislike for the arts, and for the government supporting the arts. Its not right.
A tragedy that this agency didn’t lose its funding sooner.For all intents and purpose this idiot has more in common with the Phelps,he will be remembered as a shock “artist” for this one piece and that will be it.
Anyway this is also a health hazard so I don’t understand why New York is showing it.
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