Chocolate Jesus stirs bitter controversy - CNN.com
Topic: Arts
2:58 pm EDT, Mar 30, 2007
New York (Reuters) -- A life-size sculpture of a naked Jesus made out of chocolate has angered a Roman Catholic organization and forced a Manhattan art gallery to reconsider exhibiting it during Easter week.
The sculpture "My Sweet Lord" by Cosimo Cavallaro was to be exhibited for two hours each day next week in a street-level window of the Roger Smith Lab Gallery in Midtown Manhattan.
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"They would never dare do something similar with a chocolate statue of the prophet Mohammad naked with his genitals exposed during Ramadan," she said.
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Interesting. I wonder what my color studies professor would make of social color... Some of what makes color jump out at you has to do with the environment you are used to (for instance, someone raised in a desert might find that greens and purples tend to stand out more.) I wonder how geographical color will graph itself.
No matter how much films may improve, their prospects are not likely to — which suggests that something has fundamentally changed in our relationship to the movies. The long, long romance may finally be losing its bloom, and that is why Hollywood should be concerned.
Movies were the barometers of the American psyche. More than any other form, they defined us, and to this day, the rest of the world knows us as much for our films as for any other export.
Today, movies just don't seem to matter in the same way — not to the general public and not to the high culture either, where a Pauline Kael review in the New Yorker could once ignite an intellectual firestorm. There aren't any firestorms now.
To the extent that the Internet is a niche machine, dividing its users into tiny, self-defined categories, it is providing a challenge to the movies that not even television did, because the Internet addresses a change in consciousness while television simply addressed a change in delivery of content.
The Internet ... plays to [a] powerful force in modern America and one that undermines the movies: narcissism.
In effect, we have become our own movies.
I don't think the problem lies with the ability of films to move people. I think the problem lies with the fact that Hollywood is insistent on releasing essentially the same movie repackaged over and over. People in general don't go to the movies to see something new, there's really high pressure to put something on the screen that they expect. Surprises have shown not to sell as well as the standard crap so the problem has more to do with American audiences that suck (in much the same ways they do in American elections.) In a closed system, entropy occurs and thats a pretty good summing up of Hollywood.
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