Christians Pissed About Piss Christ, Again

ARTNET NEWS
By Alexander Forbes

Andres Serrano, Piss Christ (1987). Photo: Courtesy the artist, via Wikimedia Commons.

FRANCE---Protesters swarmed the Fesch Museum in Ajaccio, Corsica on Tuesday and Wednesday, demanding that it remove Andres Serrano’s ever-incendiary work Piss Christ (1987). As Le Figaro reported, approximately 50 people stood outside the museum holding a large sign which read “PISS CHRIST FORA,” or “Piss Christ out.” The protesters contend that the work is an affront to Catholicism and an “insult to every Corsican,” the paper reports. The photograph depicts a small plastic crucifix suspended in a container of the artist’s urine. Ajaccio mayor Laurent Marcangeli claims that the work will not be removed from the exhibition, which opened June 27 and continues through September 29. [link]