{"id":5023,"date":"2010-10-07T20:19:05","date_gmt":"2010-10-07T20:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/deaconsbench\/2010\/10\/art-criticism-by-crowbar.html"},"modified":"2010-10-07T20:19:05","modified_gmt":"2010-10-07T20:19:05","slug":"art-criticism-by-crowbar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/2010\/10\/art-criticism-by-crowbar.html","title":{"rendered":"Art criticism by crowbar"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s an update<\/a> on that controversial art exhibit<\/a> in Colorado: <\/p>\n

\nA Montana woman has been charged with criminal mischief after allegedly taking a crowbar to a controversial art museum display in Colorado that critics say portrays Jesus Christ receiving oral sex from another man.<\/p>\n

Kathleen Folden, 56, of Kalispell, Mont., was arrested Wednesday and accused of damaging the the 12-panel lithograph, “The Misadventures of the Romantic Cannibals.”<\/p>\n

The piece, on display since Sept. 11 at the tax-funded Loveland Museum Gallery in Loveland, Colo., includes several images of Jesus, including one in which he appears to be receiving oral sex from a man as the word “orgasm” appears beside Jesus’ head.<\/p>\n

It has triggered protests and even calls to police by critics asking for an investigation into whether it violates a Colorado law that protects children from obscenity, the Loveland Reporter Herald reported. The city attorney determined it did not.<\/p>\n

Witnesses told the Reporter-Herald that Folden entered the Loveland Museum Gallery, used a crowbar to break glass over the art and ripped the print.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read more. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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