Crucified frog sculpture near Pope's summer holiday base provokes protests

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Pope Benedict XVI's summer break at a seminary in the mountains of northern Italy has led to demands for the removal of a "provocative" sculpture of a crucified frog on show in a nearby museum.

Local Catholics have complained to the police that the work by the German artist Martin Kippenberger, on show at the Bolzano Museum of Modern Art, is a "public obscenity". It depicts a bright green frog with its tongue hanging out, nailed to a cross, with a beer mug in one outstretched hand and an egg in the other.

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[elshiva]

1. Nice sculpture. Why is it offensive?

[BarenakedLady]

2. Craptastic sculpture, imo

But it's in a museum. Don't go look at it if you (not you, general you) don't like it.

[elshiva]

3. We may disagree about the artistic merit of the sculpture

but I agree with the latter sentiment. It's not like they planted it on the pope's lawn. What is the political or spiritual ramifications of the statue anyway? It just seems to be an intentional joke.