A Brooklyn art gallery held an exhibit portraying Kim Kardashian as Jesus – and the Virgin Mary.
The show, “The Passion of Kim Kardashian,” opened in Bushwick last week, of course polarizing local clergy.
New York Daily News reports that Father Michael Perry of Our Lady of Refuge Church in Flatbush called the show “dumb and stupid.”
“Everyone knows who Kim Kardashian is and I don’t care who she is. She has no impact on my life at all,” Perry said.
But the pastor also had some kind words for artist Hannah Kunkle’s artwork.
“They are gorgeous photos. They are well thought out,” he said.
“It’s deplorable,” said Stutzman, who is trying to raise funds to convert a Bronx strip club into a church. “It’s sacrilegious, irrelevant, and disrespectful. . . It’s idol worship.”
The one-night show of Kardashian images was held at Palisades 906, and also included images of Kardashian as a Satanic priestess, a trio of nuns, Joan of Arc and a Hindu goddess. In one of the Hindu portraits, she’s wearing a necklace decorated with the head of her husband.
Artist Hannah Kunkle, 23, said she thought the religious leaders’ outrage was “pretty hilarious.”
“I’m sorry if that offends them, but that’s really not my purpose,” she said.
“It’s art. It’s supposed to be wild and, not offensive, but prying. Religious idols are so beautiful to me, so I wanted to make my own that apply to me. Those images are so powerful – it gives power to the idea of worshiping her.”
Interesting …but not offensive to me.
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