Copper Statue of Cardinal looks like massive Cock
I do not think it does, but there has been some outrage about the intentions of the work, and wether it is meant to be a very subtle peice of subterfuge.
It reminds me of how boring and offical public art is, how representational and if it is non objective, then that non objectivity has intentions in inoffense. Anything that might resemble anything human for a brief moment is considered verboten.
Add to the that the paranoia some catholics have about anti christian sentiment in public discourse, the cardinal here is frightening and the text on the back of the peice suggests how fearful pre Vatican II catholicism could be. Can a public sculpture not concern itself with the fears of people, can it not call out power ? Why is any discussion about the Holy See and its servants that is not devotional considered anti-catholic ?