[Morgana]

In the old days this man would have been burned at the stake.

[Timpanagos1]

Why provide free publicity to this exhibit?

[stormhill]

"Art" indeed!

This has about as much cultural value as someone taking a dog turd from the lawn and displaying it in a frame. Do the same with a picture of Mohammad and now you've got something; at least that would show some courage.

[Unam Sanctam]

Why don’t they be really edgy and put a Koran in urine? Didn’t think so...

[faithhopecharity]

why in Hell (wording chosen carefully) would any responsible museum ask for..or let this horrid piece of “art” .. anywhere near its property!?

its not even artistic, forgetting for a moment about its content

its krap

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Consider it a Nehushtan submerged in urine and forget it.

[Freedom56v2]

Of course the House just appropriated $500 million to the National Endowment of the Arts to fund this sort of travesty!!!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3571519/posts

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/congress/article162981173.html

[Rurudyne]

Can we show it besides “art” where popular progressive leaders are shown suspended in a jar of pee?

Thought not.

[dp0622]

Put an image of the muzzie book in a bucket of urine.

Then you’re showing some courage.

Picking on Christianity? no big deal anymore.

And getting burned at the stake would be an absurd and overdone response. :)

Let them have their time now...

[AndyTheBear]

Being crude to get attention? Don’t give them attention. Problem solved.

[pharmacopeia]

Sr. Wendy Beckett said that Piss Christ contained a luminous Christ figure shining clearly and unstoppable through all the filth of this world. The light of Christ shines everywhere and all.

That gives Piss Christ a place in the narrative of the world of art without wasting a lot of anger on it. That seems healthier.

You are free to give it any interpretation you want. In fact, that’s heavily encouraged in most contemporary art centers. The artist is no longer the final arbiter of his work.

[a fool in paradise]

Call it hate speech and see how they respond? They are liberal bigots. It is a private entity (but that work of art was publicly funded).

They were associated with this bit of anti-Christian/anti-sememitic hate speech as well (they may not have been directly tied to it but they hosted the artist and seemed to take enjoyment in his act of vandalism):

http://www.houstonpress.com/arts/pop-rocks-6545298

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2006 AT 4 A.M

In the documentary POPaganda, on view at the Station Museum as part of the "Power Pathos" group exhibition, artist Ron English says billboard liberators are modern-day superheroes. These alterers of advertisements move among us, their lives fairly normal on the surface, but they have secret identities, secret hideouts and a secret agenda to subvert the visual noise thrown in our faces every day, the repetitive ballyhooing of everything from electric razors to Christianity.

English knows what he's talking about. Right around the time he was in town to paint a larger-than-life-size interpretation of Pablo Picasso's Guernica, a couple of billboards appeared around town bearing his distinctive mark. One, at the corner of Montrose and Fairview, was a picture of Jesus piloting a spaceship. The other, right down the street from the Station, had the Lord and Savior holding a Budweiser with the caption "King of Jews. King of Beers." We're not saying English had any part in these culture jams -- hey, he'll come forward if he wants to -- but anyone familiar with his work has seen images like these before...

http://www.popaganda.com/ronsnews/ron-englishs-meditations-on-street-art/

I put up a billboard in Baltimore some years ago. “The King of the Jews for the King of Beers.” It was one of the first legal billboards I’d ever done. It was for an arts festival, and the organizers actually built a billboard structure to display it. Three days later the billboard was vandalized and destroyed. The attack on the billboard spawned national press attention. Two hundred Christian radio stations went on about it for over a week. I called a couple of the stations and said “Hey, I’m the guy who painted the billboard you have been going on about. Could I come on air and say what I was thinking when I created it?” The answer, “We don’t care what you think”. I’d already had my say, now it was their turn. So the billboard lasted three days as a physical object and two weeks as media fodder. But the idea was out of my head and in the public consciousness. Mission accomplished.

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The one in Baltimore was a different piece of art (commissioned hate) by the same artist.

The one in Houston was illegal use of a commercially leased sign (that did not sponsor his hate).

[Zuriel]

That’s not Jesus on that cross, or any other cross. If there had been a genuine portrait of the actual scene. It would probably be by far the most copied image on the planet.