Tabloid Wages Religious War on Brooklyn Museum’s Crucifix Art

It must be Christmas time! Remember how the GOP bullied the Smithsonian Museum into censoring a “controversial” David Wojnarowicz video piece over 11 seconds of an ant-covered crucifix? Here’s today’s Daily News cover. OUTRAGE, you guys! The article itself is a heartbreaking waste of trees, relying heavily on local Catholic spokespeople yelping “That’s not art!” and “What’s the point?” The “bizarre” A Fire in My Belly piece that makes Christians “very sad” is coming to the Brooklyn Museum for the HIDE/SEEK exhibit on Nov. 18. Read more »

Jesus-Art Smasher’s Site Exposes Perveted Antichrist Bill Gates

Seven more weeks to the Rapture, you guys! So says the newly launched website of the crowbar-wielding trucker Kathy Folden who destroyed Enrique Chagoya’s The Misadventures of the Romantic Cannibals at the Loveland Museum. There’s a ten page treatise on the “incident” (“I know I will be rewarded, above the satisfaction I got from ripping such an offense to shreds”), extensive evidence that Bill Gates is the Antichrist (he’s got a “bionic brain implant to directly connect him with his worldwide computer networks” and “gets his neighbors drunk so he can see them naked”) and many hat tips to Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck. Gasp. Now, for some art criticism… Read more »

Bible Theme Park Will Have Unicorns and Dinosaurs, but Call Them ‘Dragons’

Answers In Genesis, the official blog behind Kentucky’s $150 million creationist theme park The Ark Encounter has confirmed: unicorns and dinosaurs are a go. Who knew believing in the Bible literally is this fun? Read more »

GOP Censors Smithsonian Exhibit

After being threatened by two Republican members of the House and Catholic organizations, the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery pulled David Wojnarowicz’s video A Fire in My Belly out of their exhibit. Why? Because Jesus is covered in ants and an art piece about the suffering of AIDS victims during AIDS Awareness Month would really ruin Christmas for Christians. Read more »

Trucker Attacks Oral Sex Jesus Art

Hundreds of protesters have been fuming for days in Loveland, Colorado over an art exhibition with a 12-panel lithograph where Jesus gets head. Yesterday, long-haul truck driver Kathleen Folden attacked it with a crowbar, screaming “How can you desecrate my lord?” The blasphemy-buster shattered the glass, tore up the art, bloodied her hands and sat there until the SWAT team arrived. All that over intersex Jesus getting oral foreplay, barely. Read more »