Chocolate Christ: cancelled
Artist [a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);" href="vny!://www.cosimocavallaro.com/"]Cosimo Cavallaro[/a]'s 200 pound, milk chocolate sculpture of Christ was scheduled to be exhibited at Manhattan's Lab Gallery next week but the Roger Smith Hotel (where the showing was to take place) [a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);" href="vny!://www.cnn.com/2007/US/03/30/chocolate.jesus.ap/"]cancelled the show today[/a]. A bunch of uptight Christian zealots complained and complained and complained until the hotel finally caved in and cancelled the showing. Apparently the idea of a chocolate Christ is blasphemous, but I always considered chocolate to be heavenly! (//forums/richedit/smileys/Happy/14.gif)
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Bill Donohue, head of the watchdog Catholic League, said it was "one of the worst assaults on Christian sensibilities ever." [span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"](Really? Worse than the [/span][a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-weight: bold;" href="vny!://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piss_Christ"]Christ In Piss[/a][span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"] art thingy?) [/span]Wow, that's baaaaaaaaaaad!!
Oy. There's no accounting for some people's taste.
And it won an Award in the Visual Arts competition. (which is sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts...a United States Government Agency. An agency that offers support and funding for artistic projects. (not the chocolate one.....the other one.....*gag)
THAT CANT BE HIM.....HE DOESN'T HAVE A BEARD.