Naked Chocolate Jesus Exhibit Canceled

James Joyner @ Gone Hollywood | Saturday, March 31, 2007

A New York gallery has canceled its naked chocolate Jesus exhibit after receiving protests.

A Manhattan art gallery canceled on Friday its Easter-season exhibit of a life-size chocolate sculpture depicting a naked Jesus, after an outcry by Roman Catholics. The sculpture “My Sweet Lord” by Cosimo Cavallaro was to have been exhibited for two hours each day next week in a street-level window of the Roger Smith Lab Gallery in Midtown Manhattan.

Who could have anticipated controversy over this?

Photo credit: Mary Altaffer, Associated Press (via WaPo)

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