My Sweet Lord
Sunday, April 01, 2007
In the spirit of easter, Cosimo Cavallaro's life size chocolate sculpture of Jesus was to have been exhibited for two hours each day next week in a street-level window of the Roger Smith Lab Gallery in Midtown Manhattan.
The display had been scheduled to open on Monday, days ahead of Good Friday when Christians mark the crucifixion of Jesus. But protests including a call to boycott the affiliated Roger Smith Hotel forced the gallery to scrap the showing.
Fascinatingly, a spokesperson from The Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights had this to say as why the work was so offensive: "They would never dare do something similar with a chocolate statue of the prophet Mohammad naked with his genitals exposed during Ramadan," she said before the cancellation.
I think she may have missed the point...
posted by Josephine Scarlet at 10:10 PM
9 Comments:
He's still looking pretty fresh in this pic, but the one I saw in the newspaper he had begun to get white streaks all over him... a stale saviour.
did wim botha make this?
when will these racists realise that theres nothing wrong with a chocolate jesus
Nice that the Catholic Church in its Last Days delerium has the balls to compare itself to the Prophet Mohamed . If they were chocolates would it be Nestle vs. Cadbury's, if cars, Chev vs. Chevroilet, if rugby, All Blacks vs. Bokke. If they were rock stars, surely Mohamed would win, check the attendance at Mecca...
If it wasn't Wim Bitha it must be Berni Seal.
Dear Stinkipoos,
VUYO RAYMOND MATINYANA - THE FUNERAL STORY
FOREWORD
Vuyo Raymond Matinyana died on the 14th of November 2001. Many knew him by his stage name Miss Thandi. He was the founder and leader of the Afro Vibes Band, founder and chairperson of the Afro Vibes Foundation and initiator and organizer of the yearly Afro Vibes Festival.
Raymond spent his youth in South Africa living in poverty and oppressed by apartheid, but with his perseverance, persuasiveness and artistic talent he managed to leave South Africa and build up an artistic career. He found it important to highlight the positive aspects of his country and he wanted to help build a just South Africa. Here follows a personal account of the months surrounding the death of Raymond, written by his friend Jan Blom.
To read more log on to:
http://www.mask.org.za/article.php?cat=&id=527
Yours in Jesus,
Sister Bench.
'When the weather gets rough and it's wiskey in the shade, it's best to wrap your saviour up in cellophane' - Chocolate Jesus, Tom Waits 1999
thanks for pointing out chocolate is always about black people, I thought it was about chocolate
eggsactly
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