Controversy has followed Andres Serrano's Piss Christ ever since he plunged a plastic crucifix into a glass of his own urine and photographed it, but it reached an unprecedented peak on Palm Sunday when it was attacked with hammers and destroyed after an "anti blasphemy" campaign by French Catholic fundamentalists in the city of Avignon, The Guardian reports that the violent slashing of the picture, and another Serrano photograph of a meditating nun, has plunged France into soul-searching about Christian Fundamentalism and Nicolas Sarkozy's use of religious populism in his bid for re-election next year. Read more...
Image: Andres Serrano, Piss Christ (1989)
