The Other Chocolate Jesus

The Easter season seems to bring out the religiously irreverent/socially conscious artiste more than any other season of late. Certainly more than Eid or Ramadan.

Some call it art. Other(sic) call it blasphemy. A new piece of art showing Senator Barack Obama as Jesus Christ is now on display at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Let us just consider ourselves lucky he isn't made of licorice to signify the obesity epidemic among America's youth, or perhaps coal to bring into light our dependence on fossil fuels.

I wonder, is 1995 so long ago that New Yorkers have forgotten this?