By LEONARD GREENE If you get arrested in a gallery for displaying a crude portrait of the museum's director, is the painting still art? Scott LoBaido said he was just "expressing" himself when he walked into the Brooklyn Museum yesterday with a 3-foot painting of director Arnold L. Lehman kissing a pig's rear end. LoBaido never said he was protesting the museum's controversial "Yo Mama's Last Supper" photo exhibit, featuring a nude woman as Jesus Christ.
But 16 months ago, LoBaido was arrested after he expressed himself by hurling horse manure at the building, which had displayed a controversial portrait of the Virgin Mary. LoBaido's painting portrayed a dead hog on its back with a knife in its belly and a man's lips pressed against its curly tail. LoBaido, who was arrested, was being charged with creating a "public nuisance," police said. "Giuliani's the bad guy, right," LoBaido shouted as his painting was taken away. "But this freak here who runs the museum says I can't bring my art work in here."
Meanwhile, museum officials in Chicago have their own Last Supper to defend. The Chicago Athenaeum has received more than 100 calls protesting "The Last Pancake Breakfast," which mocks the famous Leonardo DaVinci painting with a bottle of Mrs. Butterworth's pancake syrup as Jesus at the center of the table, flanked by "disciples" which include Kellogg's Rice Krispies characters "Snap, Crackle and Pop" and "Cap'n Crunch."
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LoBaido has protested anti-pledge actions in schools, and showed up at the Supreme court against Al Gore:
Nation awaits landmark ruling on Bush v. Gore ... About 100 demonstrators gathered outside the nation's high court in Washington, carrying signs and often arguing among themselves. Even the Man of Steel didn't think the wait was so super; Scott LoBaido of New York, dressed as Superman, lugged a two-sided sign proclaiming this was “The End” and it was time to say “Good Night, Al. The Party Is Over.”