Pope Angry Over Crucified Green Frog Sculpture

A modern art sculpture portraying a crucified green frog holding a beer mug and an egg that Pope Benedict has condemned as blasphemous may have its days numbered. The board of the Museion museum in the northern city of Bolzano were meeting on Thursday to choose whether to side with the pope and other opponents of the frog or with proponents who say it should be defended as a work of art. The wooden sculpture by the late German artist Martin Kippenberger depicts a frog about 1 metre 30 cm (4... Full Story