A Montana woman drove 1,500 km from Montana to a museum in Loveland, Colorado so she could destroy a controversial piece of art featuring Jesus. Kathleen Folden has been arrested for damaging a print that portrays Christ engaged in a sex act.
The woman entered the Loveland Museum Gallery on Wednesday, used a crowbar to break glass over the art and ripped the print, the Associated Press reported quoting the Loveland Reporter-Herald.
Folden was reported to have been screaming, "How can you desecrate my Lord?" She has been arrested for criminal mischief. Folden was released on a $350 cash bond during a court appearance Thursday. Another hearing is set for Oct. 15. City officials have said they will not hang the work again because of safety concerns.
The work, titled "The Misadventures of the Romantic Cannibals," is a 12-panel lithograph created by by Stanford University professor Enrique Chagoya that includes comic book characters, Mexican pornography, Mayan symbols and ethnic stereotypes. It is part of an 82-print exhibit by 10 artists that opened in mid-September.
Chagoya expressed shock at the incident and said, "My intention has never been to offend anybody. I critique the institutions and my disagreements with the way the church corrupts the spiritual. People might disagree with my views, my art, but I'm not trying to offend anybody."
