Yo Mama's Last Supper
König Prüß, GfbAEV
By Verena Dobnik
Associated Press Writer
Thursday, February 15, 2001; 8:28 PM
NEW YORK A photography exhibit that includes a work depicting Jesus
as a naked woman is stirring debate at the same museum where a
dung-decorated painting of the Virgin Mary sparked a heated six-month
legal battle.
The work "Yo Mama's Last Supper" features the photographer, Renee Cox,
nude and surrounded by 12 black apostles. It is part of an exhibit of 94
contemporary black photographers opening Friday at the Brooklyn
Museum of Art.
Cox, a Jamaican-born artist who was raised Catholic, said the Last Supper
image highlights legitimate criticisms of the church, including its refusal
to ordain women as priests.
"Get over it!" she said. "Why can't a woman be Christ? We are the givers of
life!"
Another artist's photo collage depicts a topless woman, crucified.
"I think what they did is disgusting, it's outrageous," Mayor Rudy Giuliani
said, adding that anti-Catholicism "is accepted in our city and in our
society."
Giuliani said Thursday he is appointing a task force "that can set decency
standards for those institutions that are using your money, the taxpayers'
money," including the city-subsidized museum.
In 1999, the museum's "Sensation" show featured an elephant
dung-embellished Virgin Mary. The mayor froze the museum's annual $7.2
million city subsidy, about a third of its annual budget, then sued in state
court to evict the museum.
The museum filed a countersuit in federal court, where a judge ruled that
the city had violated the First Amendment and restored the funding.
This time, Giuliani said he would go all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court,
whose decisions he said are based on "showing decency and respect for
religion."
© 2001 The Associated Press
HellPope Huey
GfbAEV <saur...@weinerschnitzel.com> wrote:
> Nude Female Jesus Photo Stirs Chaos
> By Verena Dobnik
> Associated Press Writer
> Thursday, February 15, 2001; 8:28 PM
>
> NEW YORK A photography exhibit that includes a work depicting Jesus
> as a naked woman is stirring debate at the same museum where a
> dung-decorated painting of the Virgin Mary sparked a heated six-month
> legal battle.
> The work "Yo Mama's Last Supper" features the photographer, Renee Cox,
> nude and surrounded by 12 black apostles. It is part of an exhibit of 94
> contemporary black photographers opening Friday at the Brooklyn
> Museum of Art.
> Cox, a Jamaican-born artist who was raised Catholic, said the Last Supper
> image highlights legitimate criticisms of the church, including its refusal
> to ordain women as priests.
> "Get over it!" she said. "Why can't a woman be Christ? We are the givers of
> life!"
> Another artist's photo collage depicts a topless woman, crucified.
> "I think what they did is disgusting, it's outrageous," Mayor Rudy Giuliani
> said, adding that anti-Catholicism "is accepted in our city and in our
> society."
Ahh, leave it to the Catholics to freak out worse than a meeting of the
B'Nai B'rith cackling over a kid riding by in a biege shirt. If you tried
to market a Last Supper shot with Oppenheimer and aliens and J. Edgar and
Marilyn and Kennedy and all that kind of rot, you'd grow black ops outta
yer ass like hairs for about 6 weeks until they realized you're a harmless
nut, praise "Bob", and disappear again. Remember, they even made Stang do
the psychic toilet dive when "Bob" first got to rollin' good. I personally
do not care if Jesus was riding a giant pot-bellied pig sidesaddle with
lipstick smears on his willy. And so far as Giuliani goes, he's a sharp
cat, no doubt, but he's also been gobbling them for so long, he has a
permanent bump out the back of his neck. My kevlar vest has Power Puffs
Girls printed on. Hope this clears things up.
HellPope Huey,
The lamps of my eyes,
the garbage cans of my mouth
"Tonight you'll be looking at some horrible scenes
and meeting some horrible people."
- Geraldo Rivera
"Wiring a word processor to the hand of an aborted fetus
will make the machine type every book the child never wrote."
- Warren Ellis' "City of Silence"
"You are one ugly prickly pear!"
-"Men In Black" cartoons
slurp! :-)~(__o__) http://www.disturbingauctions.com/
YOU CAN ONLY KEEP SO MANY HEADS IN A FREEZER
If they spill out the sides it surely won't please her
HE THINKS I'M A SALAD, its really no joke
RANCH DRESSING all over my *ASS*
WILL SOMEONE PLEASE CALL 911!!!
Its rough, you've no reason to laff
AND BY STRADDLING THE OTTER ON BOTH SIDES WE CAN*
HUMLIPSIBLE LIPSIBLE BLIP
HUMNARGULAR TRIPTYLENE TRIP
Cromnistical weirds that put kinks in m'beard
AND ONE HELL OF A BODICE THAT RIPS!
HellPope Huey
GfbAEV <saur...@weinerschnitzel.com> wrote:
> Nude Female Jesus Photo Stirs Chaos
> By Verena Dobnik
> Associated Press Writer
> Thursday, February 15, 2001; 8:28 PM
>
> NEW YORK A photography exhibit that includes a work depicting Jesus
> as a naked woman is stirring debate at the same museum where a
> dung-decorated painting of the Virgin Mary sparked a heated six-month
> legal battle.
> The work "Yo Mama's Last Supper" features the photographer, Renee Cox,
> nude and surrounded by 12 black apostles. It is part of an exhibit of 94
> contemporary black photographers opening Friday at the Brooklyn
> Museum of Art.
> Cox, a Jamaican-born artist who was raised Catholic, said the Last Supper
> image highlights legitimate criticisms of the church, including its refusal
> to ordain women as priests.
> "Get over it!" she said. "Why can't a woman be Christ? We are the givers of
> life!"
> Another artist's photo collage depicts a topless woman, crucified.
> "I think what they did is disgusting, it's outrageous," Mayor Rudy Giuliani
> said, adding that anti-Catholicism "is accepted in our city and in our
> society."
Ahh, leave it to the Catholics to freak out worse than a meeting of the