Should Maurizio Cattlelan's "HIM" Pray in Warsaw Ghetto?
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POLAND---Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan's 'HIM,' a 2001 sculpture of Adolf Hitler praying on his knees, has shown all over the world, including New York City's Guggenheim and Venice's Palazzo Grassi, eliciting emotions everywhere it appears. And that's precisely the point. But should the likeness of the most vile anti-Semite be placed at the site of Poland's Warsaw Ghetto, home to so many Jewish people killed by Hitler's Nazi armies? HIM was installed there by Warsaw's Center for Contemporary Art last month, but growing outrage is gaining traction this week. [link]
POLAND---Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan's 'HIM,' a 2001 sculpture of Adolf Hitler praying on his knees, has shown all over the world, including New York City's Guggenheim and Venice's Palazzo Grassi, eliciting emotions everywhere it appears. And that's precisely the point. But should the likeness of the most vile anti-Semite be placed at the site of Poland's Warsaw Ghetto, home to so many Jewish people killed by Hitler's Nazi armies? HIM was installed there by Warsaw's Center for Contemporary Art last month, but growing outrage is gaining traction this week. [link]
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