Comments on: Museum Director sacked over ‘Blasphemous’ frog sculpture – and Muslim vandals attack a London art gallery

By: T Gainey

T Gainey — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 00:59:39 +0000

I wish Christians would act and speak out against this kind of blasphemy! It is repulsive to christians and clearly a publicity stunt by an artist with very little talent. If someone made offensive art about gays and minorities and and other religions they would be under attack. Christians stand firm and develope the heat of the crusaders of the past!
TJGainey@aol.com

By: Bruce

Bruce — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 13:40:02 +0000

The idiots attacking the gallery are very wrong. But those images were made purely and cynically to cause offence – which makes for great publicity for the gallary and the artist. I am an athiest, but I think this sort of stunt, done in the name of “artistic freedom”, undermines atheists’ arguments. Athiests risk being ridiculous as regionists by stooping to this level of crassness.

By: GagWatch » Art attacked

GagWatch » Art attacked — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 20:12:29 +0000

[...] Art attacked Corinne Diserens, the director of an Italian museum who refused to give in to pressure from Catholics to remove a sculpture of a crucified frog sculpture, has been sacked (via). [...]

By: ziggy

ziggy — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:21:45 +0000

OK, so, ‘Museum curators maintained that Kippenberger’s frog, with its tongue out and wearing a loincloth, was a self-portrait of the artist “in a state of profound crisis” and was not an attack on the Church’.

However, as Mediawatchwatch commented in their report on this latest development, “So what if it was an attack on the Church?”

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By: Stuart H.

Stuart H. — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 14:35:48 +0000

Is this the Kippenberger who was married to Bette Midler?
If so, wonder if she’d be interested in taking her famous stunt from a German tour years ago to Rome.
Can you imagine – 100,000 atheists gathered in the Vatican Square serenading Ratzenface on a Sunday morning with ‘Hitler has only got one ball’!

By: TERMINUS EST

TERMINUS EST — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 14:13:13 +0000

So, over this incident, at the behest of political and religious leaders, the mob was enraged, and the art director was “crucified.”

I can’t quite place it, but this re-enactment sounds familiar. Clearly they know not what they do.

By: mrgrumpy

mrgrumpy — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 14:05:48 +0000

The London gallery story was covered by the local ITV news last night, but they felt the need to pixellate the “offensive” bits of the paintings out. Whatever happened to courageous journalism?

By: Newspaniard

Newspaniard — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 13:13:59 +0000

Of course, even if there is a mass of evidence against the attackers of the gallery, the perpetrators will get off scott free. The authorities, after all, don’t want to be accused of racism or ‘upsetting’ religious minorities.