Chocolate Jesus has gotta go

Chocolate Jesus has gotta go

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Chocolate Jesus exhibit canceled after uproar
NYC gallery inundated with angry calls ahead of display during Holy
Week

NEW YORK - A planned Holy Week exhibition of a nude,
anatomically correct chocolate sculpture of Jesus Christ
was canceled Friday amid a choir of complaining Catholics
that included Cardinal Edward Egan.

The "My Sweet Lord" display was shut down by the hotel
that houses the Lab Gallery in midtown Manhattan, said
Matt Semler, the gallery's creative director. Semler said
he submitted his resignation after officials at
the Roger Smith Hotel shut down the show.

The six-foot sculpture was the victim of "a strong-arming
from people who haven't seen the show, seen what we're
doing," Semler said. "They jumped to conclusions completely
contrary to our intentions."


But word of the confectionary Christ infuriated Catholics,
including Egan, who described it as "a sickening display."

Bill Donohue, head of the watchdog Catholic League, said
it was "one of the worst assaults on Christian sensibilities ever."

"It's not just the ugliness of the portrayal, but the timing -
to choose Holy Week is astounding," he said.

The hotel and the gallery were overrun Thursday with
angry phone calls and e-mails about the exhibit. Semler
said the calls included death threats over the
work of artist Cosimo Cavallaro, who was described as
disappointed by the decision to cancel the display.


"In this situation, the hotel couldn't continue to be supportive
because of a fear for their own safety," Semler said.

The sculpture was to debut Monday evening, the day after
Palm Sunday and just four days before Roman Catholics
mark the crucifixion of Jesus Christ on Good Friday. The
final day of the exhibit was planned for Easter Sunday.

The artwork was created from more than 200 pounds of milk
chocolate, and features Christ with his arms outstretched as
if on an invisible cross. Unlike the typical religious portrayal
of Christ, the Cavallaro creation does not include a loincloth.

Cavallaro is best known for his quirky work with food as art:
Past efforts include repainting a Manhattan hotel room in
melted mozzarella, spraying five tons of pepper jack cheese
on a Wyoming home, and festooning a four-poster bed with
312 pounds of processed ham.

Re: Chocolate Jesus has gotta go


"Rob Kleinschmidt" <Rkleinsch1216128@aol . com > wrote

> Chocolate Jesus exhibit canceled after uproar
> NYC gallery inundated with angry calls ahead of display during Holy
> Week

(Snip)

Ah, yes. The spirit of Rudy Giuliani lives on.

Re: Chocolate Jesus has gotta go

P.Roehling wrote:
> "Rob Kleinschmidt" <Rkleinsch1216128@aol . com > wrote
>
>> Chocolate Jesus exhibit canceled after uproar
>> NYC gallery inundated with angry calls ahead of display during Holy
>> Week
>
> (Snip)
>
> Ah, yes. The spirit of Rudy Giuliani lives on.
>
>

You can't have a chocolate Jesus, but the National Endowment for the
Arts considers smearing shit on a picture of the Virgin Mary to be a-ok.

Re: Chocolate Jesus has gotta go

On Apr 2, 5:56 pm, Polarhound <polarho...@comcast . net > wrote:
> P.Roehling wrote:
> > "Rob Kleinschmidt" <Rkleinsch1216...@aol . com > wrote
>
> >> Chocolate Jesus exhibit canceled after uproar
> >> NYC gallery inundated with angry calls ahead of display during Holy
> >> Week
>
> > (Snip)
>
> > Ah, yes. The spirit of Rudy Giuliani lives on.
>
> You can't have a chocolate Jesus, but the National Endowment for the
> Arts considers smearing shit on a picture of the Virgin Mary to be a-ok.

Works for me.

The story reminds me of N.Y. artist, Joey Scaggs, who
every year would attempt to march in the Easter
parade carrying a similar statuette of Jesus which
sported an outsized dong.

Every year, the NYPD used to attempt to apprehend him
and seize Jesus. Last time I read about it, he had decoyed
them with a statue which they seized, while he uncovered
a second statue and managed to march for a while before they
captured him.

On another occasion, he announced that he was opening
a brothel for dogs, invited the press to the gala opening.
Supposedly the brothel was to relieve the tensions of
dogs who had to spend all day cooped up in apartments.

He managed to get himself arrested by NY's finest on
charges of pandering. News photos showed racy pictures
of poodles in garters and when presented with this
evidence, the judge had some choice words for the idiots
who had charged him with pandering to dogs.

I often kinda miss N.Y.

Re: Chocolate Jesus has gotta go


"Rob Kleinschmidt" <Rkleinsch1216128@aol . com > wrote in message
news:1175578305.143350.250100@n59g2000hsh.googlegroups . com ...
> On Apr 2, 5:56 pm, Polarhound <polarho...@comcast . net > wrote:
>> P.Roehling wrote:
>> > "Rob Kleinschmidt" <Rkleinsch1216...@aol . com > wrote
>>
>> >> Chocolate Jesus exhibit canceled after uproar
>> >> NYC gallery inundated with angry calls ahead of display during Holy
>> >> Week
>>
>> > (Snip)
>>
>> > Ah, yes. The spirit of Rudy Giuliani lives on.
>>
>> You can't have a chocolate Jesus, but the National Endowment for the
>> Arts considers smearing shit on a picture of the Virgin Mary to be a-ok.
>
> Works for me.
>
> The story reminds me of N.Y. artist, Joey Scaggs, who
> every year would attempt to march in the Easter
> parade carrying a similar statuette of Jesus which
> sported an outsized dong.
>
> Every year, the NYPD used to attempt to apprehend him
> and seize Jesus. Last time I read about it, he had decoyed
> them with a statue which they seized, while he uncovered
> a second statue and managed to march for a while before they
> captured him.
>
> On another occasion, he announced that he was opening
> a brothel for dogs, invited the press to the gala opening.
> Supposedly the brothel was to relieve the tensions of
> dogs who had to spend all day cooped up in apartments.
>
> He managed to get himself arrested by NY's finest on
> charges of pandering. News photos showed racy pictures
> of poodles in garters and when presented with this
> evidence, the judge had some choice words for the idiots
> who had charged him with pandering to dogs.
>
> I often kinda miss N.Y.

God! Please post a link of these images, please!

Thumper
>

Re: Chocolate Jesus has gotta go


"Polarhound" <polarhound@comcast . net > wrote

>> Ah, yes. The spirit of Rudy Giuliani lives on.
>
> You can't have a chocolate Jesus, but the National Endowment for the Arts
> considers smearing shit on a picture of the Virgin Mary to be a-ok.

(Shrug) If you wanna live in a State where the dominant religious whackos
get to dictate what qualifies as "art" and what doesn't, there are several
Fundamentalist Muslim States where you'd be quite happy.

Me, I prefer a country that lets it's citizens decide those things for
themselves by the oldest possible means: voting with their feet. That is to
say; if you don't like it; don't go to see it.

Wasn't that easy?

Re: Chocolate Jesus has gotta go


"Polarhound" <polarhound@comcast . net > wrote in message
news:4tCdnXEasIHPKYzbnZ2dnUVZ_oPinZ2d@comcast . com ...
> P.Roehling wrote:
>> "Rob Kleinschmidt" <Rkleinsch1216128@aol . com > wrote
>>
>>> Chocolate Jesus exhibit canceled after uproar
>>> NYC gallery inundated with angry calls ahead of display during Holy
>>> Week
>>
>> (Snip)
>>
>> Ah, yes. The spirit of Rudy Giuliani lives on.
>
> You can't have a chocolate Jesus, but the National Endowment for the Arts
> considers smearing shit on a picture of the Virgin Mary to be a-ok.

Who gives a shit...Really? ;-)

"Immaculate" Conception? "Virgin" Mary?

Ain't nothing immaculate after dat there baby came outta dere, no siree.

Re: Chocolate Jesus has gotta go

Jeff Mayner wrote:
> "Polarhound" <polarhound@comcast . net > wrote in message
> news:4tCdnXEasIHPKYzbnZ2dnUVZ oPinZ2d@comcast . com ...
>> P.Roehling wrote:
>>> "Rob Kleinschmidt" <Rkleinsch1216128@aol . com > wrote
>>>
>>>> Chocolate Jesus exhibit canceled after uproar
>>>> NYC gallery inundated with angry calls ahead of display during Holy
>>>> Week
>>> (Snip)
>>>
>>> Ah, yes. The spirit of Rudy Giuliani lives on.
>> You can't have a chocolate Jesus, but the National Endowment for the Arts
>> considers smearing shit on a picture of the Virgin Mary to be a-ok.
>
> Who gives a shit...Really? ;-)
>
> "Immaculate" Conception? "Virgin" Mary?
>
> Ain't nothing immaculate after dat there baby came outta dere, no siree.
>
>

Why should you give a shit? It was YOUR tax dollars that funded it!

Re: Chocolate Jesus has gotta go

On Apr 3, 2:51 pm, Polarhound <polarho...@comcast . net > wrote:
> Jeff Mayner wrote:
> > "Polarhound" <polarho...@comcast . net > wrote in message
> >news:4tCdnXEasIHPKYzbnZ2dnUVZ oPinZ2d@comcast . com ...
> >> P.Roehling wrote:
> >>> "Rob Kleinschmidt" <Rkleinsch1216...@aol . com > wrote
>
> >>>> Chocolate Jesus exhibit canceled after uproar
> >>>> NYC gallery inundated with angry calls ahead of display during Holy
> >>>> Week
> >>> (Snip)
>
> >>> Ah, yes. The spirit of Rudy Giuliani lives on.
> >> You can't have a chocolate Jesus, but the National Endowment for the Arts
> >> considers smearing shit on a picture of the Virgin Mary to be a-ok.
>
> > Who gives a shit...Really? ;-)
>
> > "Immaculate" Conception? "Virgin" Mary?
>
> > Ain't nothing immaculate after dat there baby came outta dere, no siree.
>
> Why should you give a shit? It was YOUR tax dollars that funded it!


Compared with funding Iraq, I gotta say that funding the smearing of
a picture of Mary with elephant shit was money really well spent.

Whoever thought of it was a frikkin genius and they ought to be
helping Bush straighten out the rest of his policies. Maybe they
can fill the opening that'll be left by the upcoming resignation of
Gonzales or whoever else it is who's going to get the full support
of the president.

Re: Chocolate Jesus has gotta go


"Polarhound" <polarhound@comcast . net > wrote in message
news:Y7qdneYOTuTFUY_bnZ2dnUVZ_qDinZ2d@comcast . com ...
> Jeff Mayner wrote:
>> "Polarhound" <polarhound@comcast . net > wrote in message
>> news:4tCdnXEasIHPKYzbnZ2dnUVZ_oPinZ2d@comcast . com ...
>>> P.Roehling wrote:
>>>> "Rob Kleinschmidt" <Rkleinsch1216128@aol . com > wrote
>>>>
>>>>> Chocolate Jesus exhibit canceled after uproar
>>>>> NYC gallery inundated with angry calls ahead of display during Holy
>>>>> Week
>>>> (Snip)
>>>>
>>>> Ah, yes. The spirit of Rudy Giuliani lives on.
>>> You can't have a chocolate Jesus, but the National Endowment for the
>>> Arts considers smearing shit on a picture of the Virgin Mary to be a-ok.
>>
>> Who gives a shit...Really? ;-)
>>
>> "Immaculate" Conception? "Virgin" Mary?
>>
>> Ain't nothing immaculate after dat there baby came outta dere, no siree.
>>
>>
>
> Why should you give a shit? It was YOUR tax dollars that funded it!

So?

A couple of bucks. Just as you can't pick your parents, you don't get to
pick what's funded. You do have every right to comment on it though. I don't
give a shit about that piece of artwork. I would not, and I did not, go see
it. That doesn't mean I don't support funding all art, I do. I just do not
like all of it.

I don't support the war in Iraq. Do you think I have the right to protest
tax dollars being used to fund it? Sure I do. Anybody gonna listen to me
that could change things? Hell no.

I'm pissed that the gallery caved and let a bunch of religious nuts get
their way.

Re: Chocolate Jesus has gotta go

On Wed, 4 Apr 2007 01:27:07 -0700, "Jeff Mayner"
<jeffmayner@yahoo . com > wrote:

>
>"Polarhound" <polarhound@comcast . net > wrote in message
>news:Y7qdneYOTuTFUY_bnZ2dnUVZ_qDinZ2d@comcast . com ...
>> Jeff Mayner wrote:
>>> "Polarhound" <polarhound@comcast . net > wrote in message

>>>> You can't have a chocolate Jesus, but the National Endowment for the
>>>> Arts considers smearing shit on a picture of the Virgin Mary to be a-ok.
>>>
>>> Who gives a shit...Really? ;-)
>>
>> Why should you give a shit?
>
> I don't give a shit about that piece of artwork.

We know. Nobody did. It was some elephant that donated the shit.

--
Turby the Turbosurfer

Re: Chocolate Jesus has gotta go


"Polarhound" <polarhound@comcast . net > wrote in message
news:Y7qdneYOTuTFUY_bnZ2dnUVZ_qDinZ2d@comcast . com ...
> Jeff Mayner wrote:
>> "Polarhound" <polarhound@comcast . net > wrote in message
>> news:4tCdnXEasIHPKYzbnZ2dnUVZ_oPinZ2d@comcast . com ...
>>> P.Roehling wrote:
>>>> "Rob Kleinschmidt" <Rkleinsch1216128@aol . com > wrote
>>>>
>>>>> Chocolate Jesus exhibit canceled after uproar
>>>>> NYC gallery inundated with angry calls ahead of display during Holy
>>>>> Week
>>>> (Snip)
>>>>
>>>> Ah, yes. The spirit of Rudy Giuliani lives on.
>>> You can't have a chocolate Jesus, but the National Endowment for the
>>> Arts considers smearing shit on a picture of the Virgin Mary to be a-ok.
>>
>> Who gives a shit...Really? ;-)
>>
>> "Immaculate" Conception? "Virgin" Mary?
>>
>> Ain't nothing immaculate after dat there baby came outta dere, no siree.
>>
>>
>
> Why should you give a shit? It was YOUR tax dollars that funded it!

I don't know about you but I think most of my tax dollars go to the huge
corporations involved in the Iraq scam, like Halleburton and The Carlsyle
Group.


Thumper

Re: Chocolate Jesus has gotta go


"P.Roehling" <Pete.Roehling@CUTOUTeee.org> wrote in message
news:1312p7mcp65fc59@corp.supernews . com ...
>
> "Rob Kleinschmidt" <Rkleinsch1216128@aol . com > wrote
>
>> Chocolate Jesus exhibit canceled after uproar
>> NYC gallery inundated with angry calls ahead of display during Holy
>> Week
>
> (Snip)
>
> Ah, yes. The spirit of Rudy Giuliani lives on.

He ain't dead yet. One can dream, I suppose.



>

Re: Chocolate Jesus has gotta go


"Jeff Mayner" <jeffmayner@yahoo . com > wrote

>> Ah, yes. The spirit of Rudy Giuliani lives on.

> He ain't dead yet. One can dream, I suppose.

Didn't say he was. For the "self-appointed art censor" portion of his spirit
to live on seperately from his body, it isn't compulsory for him to die
first.

Besides; we might have to get used to him. He's still leading the pack for
the Republican Presidential nomination.

Re: Chocolate Jesus has gotta go


"Rob Kleinschmidt" <Rkleinsch1216128@aol . com > wrote in message
news:1175544511.440203.138150@y80g2000hsf.googlegroups . com ...
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>
> Chocolate Jesus exhibit canceled after uproar
> NYC gallery inundated with angry calls ahead of display during Holy
> Week
>
> NEW YORK - A planned Holy Week exhibition of a nude,
> anatomically correct chocolate sculpture of Jesus Christ
> was canceled Friday amid a choir of complaining Catholics
> that included Cardinal Edward Egan.
>
> The "My Sweet Lord" display was shut down by the hotel
> that houses the Lab Gallery in midtown Manhattan, said
> Matt Semler, the gallery's creative director. Semler said
> he submitted his resignation after officials at
> the Roger Smith Hotel shut down the show.
>
> The six-foot sculpture was the victim of "a strong-arming
> from people who haven't seen the show, seen what we're
> doing," Semler said. "They jumped to conclusions completely
> contrary to our intentions."
>
>
> But word of the confectionary Christ infuriated Catholics,
> including Egan, who described it as "a sickening display."
>
> Bill Donohue, head of the watchdog Catholic League, said
> it was "one of the worst assaults on Christian sensibilities ever."
>
> "It's not just the ugliness of the portrayal, but the timing -
> to choose Holy Week is astounding," he said.
>
> The hotel and the gallery were overrun Thursday with
> angry phone calls and e-mails about the exhibit. Semler
> said the calls included death threats over the
> work of artist Cosimo Cavallaro, who was described as
> disappointed by the decision to cancel the display.
>
>
> "In this situation, the hotel couldn't continue to be supportive
> because of a fear for their own safety," Semler said.
>
> The sculpture was to debut Monday evening, the day after
> Palm Sunday and just four days before Roman Catholics
> mark the crucifixion of Jesus Christ on Good Friday. The
> final day of the exhibit was planned for Easter Sunday.
>
> The artwork was created from more than 200 pounds of milk
> chocolate, and features Christ with his arms outstretched as
> if on an invisible cross. Unlike the typical religious portrayal
> of Christ, the Cavallaro creation does not include a loincloth.
>
> Cavallaro is best known for his quirky work with food as art:
> Past efforts include repainting a Manhattan hotel room in
> melted mozzarella, spraying five tons of pepper jack cheese
> on a Wyoming home, and festooning a four-poster bed with
> 312 pounds of processed ham.

That's just plain wrong. Why, I would have flown to New York just to fellate
the crusified Christ's chocolate dong.


Ummm, Ummm, good.

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