Topic: Andres Serrano

From images of Emmett Till to snapshots of deceased dictators, publishing death photos is a practice with a complicated history.. . Warning: Some ...

Vandals strike at 'Piss Christ' photo in France

Police in the south of France on Monday sought two vandals who destroyed a US artist's photograph of a plastic crucifix submerged in urine that outraged American conservatives in the 1980s.Two men armed with a hammer and a screwdriver-like device ...

Vandalism and threats greet "Piss Christ" in France

PARIS (Reuters) - A controversial photograph of a crucifix submerged in the urine of New York artist Andres Serrano has been vandalized during an exhibit in Avignon and the museum's employees have received death threats."Piss Christ" -- a photograph that sparked an ...
From m&c Paris - A group of Christian fundamentalists armed with hammers and screwdrivers destroyed two artworks in an exhibition in the southern...

Stephen Colbert sells his portrait to benefit the arts

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Political satirist Stephen Colbert is selling himself, but it is all for the children.The host of Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report," a popular program that mocks self-important pundits, will auction off "Portrait 5, Stephen(s)" next month ...

Movie reviews: Max Payne

I wasted almost $4 and about two hours of my life on this poor excuse for a motion picture. It seems that Hollywood has come to the realization that you can digest a weak story, throw in a load of cheesy, video ...

Controversial Artists

Michelangelo?s David represents not only the strength of faith during the Renaissance, but embodied the independent city-state, the Florentine Republic, and its defense of civic freedom against its many rivals. Edward explains that it represents Spears putting childbirth ahead of her ...

Art, Protest, and the Quran on 9/11

In the midst of the circus surrounding Pastor Terry Jones' plan to burn Qurans on the anniversary of September 11th, perhaps the most disturbing aspect is the emerging meme among conservatives that Jones' act is somehow analogous to other religious statements in ...

Artists beginning with S

Pieter Saenredam - Interior of the St Odolphus Church in Assendelft (c1649)An inscription carved into theg rey floorstones reads upside down, and a grey box like a minimalist sculpture stands beneath paintings hung at an angle that make you think of lozenge-shaped ...

LaChapelle’s Show

How much of Paris Hiltons crotchyouve seen it on the Internet, Im sureany rational person needs is a question asked by Auguries of Innocence, an exhibition of photographs by David LaChapelle at Tony Shafrazi Gallery. The 16th-century painter Hans Holbein is listed ...