RELIGION — ANIMAL

X-Rated Jesus Artist Makes Lame Painting for Church

We know that the lady trucker who smashed Enrique Chagoya’s The Misadventures of Romantic Cannibals with a crowbar is a little loony… and not just because she proselytizes that Bill Gates is a perverted robot Antichrist. Yet, the artist felt like he had to appease extremists and apologize for all that tranny Jesus cunnilingus. He presented this “uncorrupted” Christ painting to the Colorado Resurrection Fellowship Church in collaboration with their pastor, who said “Wow, this is the most beautiful, uplifting piece of artwork I have ever seen.” I bet.

By Marina Galperina on June 22, 2011 at 1:00 pm

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Crazy Preacher No Crazier than Crazy Christians

So there’s been a lot of discussions about Harold Camping and his insistence that the Rapture begins on May 21st, with the majority of people dismissing the preacher as a crazy ‘ol kook while refusing to say the same about the religion that concocted this end times theory in the first place. Read more »

By Bucky Turco on May 20, 2011 at 11:03 am

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‘Piss Christ’ Destroyed by Catholics in France

Yesterday at 11am, two Catholics “disguised” in sunglasses ran inside the museum of contemporary art in Avignon, France, assaulted the guards and attacked Andres Serrano’s Piss Christ with hammers, icepicks and spraypaint, destroying the 1987 photo of a plastic crucifix soaking in a glass of the artist’s urine. Thou shall not have watersports in the crucifixion fetish pageant! Read more »

By Marina Galperina on April 18, 2011 at 9:00 am

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Happy Religion Photoshop Art

Indonesian artist Agan Harahap has Photoshoped his chiaroscuro face into some of Caravaggio’s most iconic Jesus scenes for project Happy Religion. There’s Christ grinning through his entombment… and he’s Asian! Read more »

By Marina Galperina on March 29, 2011 at 1:15 pm

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‘Pornucopia’ Art Show Terrifies Orthodox Community With Nipples

Here’re some randy artworks from the “Pornucopia” excess and porn-themed art show at the Allegra LaViola Gallery. Randy! Yet, it was the relatively tame nude pizza-face and happily-nippled skipping girl in the window display that caused vocal protesting from the adjacent Orthodox community, three visits from the police in the past two weeks and Yeshiva schoolboys banging on the glass. Read more »

By Marina Galperina on March 15, 2011 at 1:30 pm

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More Fires in My Belly, Guns and Sewed Loafs

In response to the National Portrait Gallery censoring A Fire in My Belly, Chelsea’s PPOW Gallery rounds up NYC artist David Wojnarowicz’s other “transmutation of suffering into wisdom” and Catholic-themed works. There’s a heavy Alejandro Jodorowsky vibe to the show. Read more »

By Marina Galperina on February 14, 2011 at 3:30 pm

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Totally Not-Gay Minister Gets Moment to Shine

While we all cry our tears of Ted Williams YouTube-induced joy, let’s also shed one for Ted Haggard–the evangelical church man who fell from grace in 2006, when people discovered he’d been loving up his male masseuse/meth dealer. Haggard’s got a reality special about his new church coming out on TLC (check your TV Guide for details). Happy “Second Chances Week,” everybody! Read more »

By Lauri Apple on January 6, 2011 at 6:04 pm

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Online Voters Electrocute Performance Artist

For a week starting yesterday, Russian art-activist Oleg Mavromati is spending four hours a day hooked up to a DIY electrocution machine, live streaming and allowing online viewers to vote “Innocent” or “Guilty” at 50 cents a pop. 100 votes and he gets the juice. Read more »

By Marina Galperina on November 8, 2010 at 5:00 pm

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Stalin’s Icon and a Brick Up Yours

: “Stalin’s Icon,” Oct. 31, 2010

: “Stalin’s Icon,” Oct. 31, 2010

: “Stalin’s Icon,” Oct. 31, 2010

: “Stalin’s Icon,” Oct. 31, 2010

: “Stalin’s Icon,” Oct. 31, 2010

: “Stalin’s Icon,” Oct. 31, 2010

: “Stalin’s Icon,” Oct. 31, 2010

: Previous 2009 action, “Fuck for the morality board!”

Ukraine’s artist-agitator Alexander Volodarsky’s action Stalin’s Icon stirred up a little trouble over the weekend. Volodarsky, trailed by a crew conspirators and bystander babushkas, presented his portrait of the mustached dictator stylized as a holy icon inside Kiev’s historic church Pechersk Lavra. He preceded to recite this poem/prayer: “They moan at the candles / before a portait of Stalin… And as instructed by the great Ilich / they shove a brick up their anus, each.” Read more »

By Marina Galperina on November 3, 2010 at 5:00 pm

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HA! According to a Pew poll, atheists tend to be more knowledgeable about religion than most of the people following said religion (Jews and Mormons excluded).

By Bucky Turco on September 29, 2010 at 5:55 pm

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