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Mar 30, 2007 04:20 PM

Ecce cocoa

by James Panero


You read it here first. And once our post about an art gallery’s plans to display an ’anatomically correct’ Chocolate Jesus was picked up by Ed Driscoll and Pajamas Media, so did the rest of the world.

Today, Chocolate Jesus died for art’s sins.

N.Y. gallery cancels naked chocolate Jesus exhibit
Fri Mar 30, 2007 2:56pm ET

By Daniel Trotta

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Manhattan art gallery canceled on Friday its Easter-season exhibit of a life-size chocolate sculpture depicting a naked Jesus, after an outcry by Roman Catholics.

The sculpture "My Sweet Lord" by Cosimo Cavallaro was to have been exhibited for two hours each day next week in a street-level window of the Roger Smith Lab Gallery in Midtown Manhattan.

The display had been scheduled to open on Monday, days ahead of Good Friday when Christians mark the crucifixion of Jesus. But protests including a call to boycott the affiliated Roger Smith Hotel forced the gallery to scrap the showing.

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