Austrians are locked in a nationwide debate touched off by the brief display in a prestigious Roman Catholic museum of an etching that depicts Jesus Christ and his disciples having an orgy during the biblical Last Supper.
Alfred Hrdlicka's etching of an orgy at the Last Supper has provoked strong criticism in Austria
A chastened and chagrined Cardinal Christoph Schoenborn, the top churchman in this largely conservative and overwhelmingly Catholic country, has ordered the offending artwork, by sculptor Alfred Hrdlicka, removed.
But the controversy rages on, and some have likened it to the furor triggered by the Prophet Muhammad cartoons.
Exhibition curator Michael Kaufmann says he's even seen Web postings from extremists "who have threatened to come to Vienna and blow up its museums with Molotov cocktails."
ANDREDESIGNZ said
10:07 04/11 2008
wat the hell
biggaman121 said
10:08 04/11 2008
what the world really comin to ?
Gangsta ras said
10:10 04/11 2008
wtf
chronic_387 said
10:11 04/11 2008
ssugarlipss (Administrator) said
11:03 04/11 2008
wtfff
DJ O.P. said
11:14 04/11 2008
Shottess said
12:45 04/11 2008
BLASPHEMOUS!
Crazypickney said
12:47 04/11 2008
what the hell
Ambassidah said
13:04 04/11 2008
dem nuh fraida ah God
viper_3kj said
13:06 04/11 2008
WTF.......the extermist dem fi blow up the whole building
Alfred Hrdlicka's etching of an orgy at the Last Supper has provoked strong criticism in Austria
A chastened and chagrined Cardinal Christoph Schoenborn, the top churchman in this largely conservative and overwhelmingly Catholic country, has ordered the offending artwork, by sculptor Alfred Hrdlicka, removed.
But the controversy rages on, and some have likened it to the furor triggered by the Prophet Muhammad cartoons.
Exhibition curator Michael Kaufmann says he's even seen Web postings from extremists "who have threatened to come to Vienna and blow up its museums with Molotov cocktails."