OT: Remember the Outrage Over the Cross in a Jar of Urine?

That a Roman Catholic adult overturned and shattered the jar and blamed it on a little kid
who was subsequently banned from that museum for life.

There really isn't much more to say on the matter.

What?

Tomorrow I'm going to unveil my new art masterpiece. 



"Buddha in a toilet full of vomit"  

What about "Turd Netanyahu"?

You could make a piece of art called "Turd Saddam Hussein" or "Turd Yassir Arafat" and no fatwa would be issued either. Or you could be a 5-year-old Palestinian kid in Gaza and a rabbi might call for your death.

There is a misconception this was an art piece on display, however it was photograph in a series of cheap religious icon immersed in various liquids. 



From Wikipedia 

Immersion (Piss Christ) is a 1987 photograph by the American artist and photographer Andres Serrano. It depicts a small plastic crucifix submerged in a small glass tank of the artist's urine. The piece was a winner of the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art's "Awards in the Visual Arts" competition,[1] which was sponsored in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, a United States Government agency that offers support and funding for artistic projects.

The work generated much controversy based on assertions that it was blasphemous. Serrano said of the controversy: "I had no idea Piss Christ would get the attention it did, since I meant neither blasphemy nor offense by it. I've been a Catholic all my life, so I am a follower of Christ."[2]

Description

The photograph is of a small plastic crucifix submerged in what appears to be an orange liquid. The artist described the substance as his own urine in a glass.[3][4] The photograph was one of a series of photographs that Serrano had made that involved classical statuettes submerged in various fluids—milk, blood, and urine.[5] It followed two years after Serrano's 1985 work, Blood Cross. The full title of the work is Immersion (Piss Christ).[6][7] The photograph is a 60-by-40-inch (150 by 100 cm) Cibachrome print. It is glossy, and its colors are deeply saturated. The presentation is that of a golden, rosy medium, including a constellation of tiny bubbles. Without Serrano specifying the substance to be urine and without the artwork title referring to urine by another name, the viewer would not necessarily be able to differentiate between the stated medium of urine and a medium of similar appearances, such as amber or polyurethane.[8]

Serrano has not ascribed overtly political content to Piss Christ and related artworks, stressing their ambiguity. He has also said that while this work is not intended to denounce religion, it alludes to the recent trend of commercializing or cheapening Christian icons in contemporary culture.[9] Subsequently, he has explicitly rejected the assertion that he was motivated by blasphemy, saying instead that it was intended as a serious work of Christian art. He said, "What it symbolizes is the way Christ died: the blood came out of him but so did the piss and the shit. Maybe if Piss Christ upsets you, it's because it gives some sense of what the crucifixion actually was like...I was born and raised a Catholic and I've been a Christian all my life."[10]

The art critic Lucy R. Lippard has presented a constructive case for the formal value of Serrano's Piss Christ, which she characterizes as mysterious and beautiful.[8] She writes that the work is "a darkly beautiful photographic image… the small wood and plastic crucifix becomes virtually monumental as it floats, photographically enlarged, in a deep rosy glow that is both ominous and glorious."[11] Lippard suggests that the formal values of the image can be regarded separately from other meanings.[12]