A Manhattan art gallery has cancelled its Easter-season exhibit of a life-size chocolate sculpture of a naked Jesus after an outcry by Catholics.
The gallery's artistic director has tendered his resignation to protest the cancellation.
International artist Cosimo Cavallaro's sculpture, My Sweet Lord, was to be exhibited for two hours each day next week in a street-level window of the Roger Smith Lab Gallery in Midtown Manhattan.
The 300,000-strong Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights had written to 500 religious and secular organisations, calling for a boycott of the affiliated Roger Smith Hotel.
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From Rachel Sklar in the HuffPo:
At the American Society of Newspaper Editors conference yesterday, Washington Post Co. chair Don Graham held up the current issue of Newsweek titled "Voices of the Fallen" featuring the words of troops killed in Iraq — their letters, journals and emails sent to wives, sons, daughters, siblings, parents, sweethearts, friends.
Said Graham: "I'm holding what I think might be the best issue of Newsweek in the 75 years of the magazine."
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Back story
here and
here.Federal investigators are reviewing the activities of
103 scientists who may have had improper links to pharmaceutical companies while they were employed at the National Institutes of Health, apparently resurrecting a conflict-of-interest inquiry that many in the agency thought was closed.
In a letter sent to several members of Congress on March 23 and made public yesterday, Daniel R. Levinson, inspector general for the Department of Health and Human Services, said his office is looking into the cases "to determine whether investigation is warranted."
More at the WaPo
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