{"id":2912,"date":"2011-04-19T14:46:49","date_gmt":"2011-04-19T21:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2011\/04\/piss-christ-art-piece-attacked-defiled-by-uncultured-catholic-agitators\/"},"modified":"2011-04-21T13:00:31","modified_gmt":"2011-04-21T20:00:31","slug":"piss-christ-art-piece-attacked-defiled-by-uncultured-catholic-agitators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2011\/04\/19\/piss-christ-art-piece-attacked-defiled-by-uncultured-catholic-agitators\/","title":{"rendered":"PISS CHRIST Art Piece Attacked, Defiled By Uncultured Catholic Agitators"},"content":{"rendered":"

from Salon.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

The endless, idiotic outrage about “Piss Christ”<\/h1>\n

A French gallery displays the now-vandalized work — and shows what real blasphemy looks like<\/h2>\n

BY\u00a0MARY ELIZABETH WILLIAMS<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

\"The
\nCredit:\u00a0Wikipedia<\/a><\/em><\/center><\/p>\n

The French really know how to get worked up about art. They’ll\u00a0riot over a ballet<\/a>; they’ll get whipped into a\u00a0frenzy over impressionism<\/a>. And this past Palm Sunday a group of Catholic protesters stormed a gallery in Avignon and\u00a0defaced Andres Serrano’s “Piss Christ.”<\/a><\/p>\n

The notorious photograph of a crucifix immersed in the artist’s urine has been inciting outrage ever since Serrano unveiled it back in 1987. Thanks to Serrano’s modest NEA grant, Jesse Helms was able to use the work as an excuse to froth over public funding for the arts, and it’s reliably been trotted out as a shining example of all that’s sacrilegious and wicked in art ever since.<\/p>\n

[ click to continue reading at SalonChrist.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

from Salon.com The endless, idiotic outrage about “Piss Christ” A French gallery displays the now-vandalized work — and shows what real blasphemy looks like BY\u00a0MARY ELIZABETH WILLIAMS Credit:\u00a0Wikipedia The French really know how to get worked up about art. They’ll\u00a0riot over a ballet; they’ll get whipped into a\u00a0frenzy over impressionism. And this past Palm Sunday […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}