2014 World Cup Ad Drapes Christ the Redeemer In Italian Jersey and Pisses off Brazilians

COMPLEX ART & DESIGN
By Andrea Lasane

Christ the Redeemer in 2014 World Cup T-shirt enrages Brazil's Catholics

Want to know the fastest way to piss off an entire country? Desecrate a major religious site and the sport that they treat like a religion at the same damn time. A television commercial in Italy for the 2014 World Cup features Christ the Redeemer (one of the most famous religious statues in the world) towering over Rio de Janeiro in an Italian football jersey. According to Telegraph, the Catholic Church of Brazil has called the ad "disrespectful and inappropriate" and the Archdiocese of Rio is threatening to sue. [link]

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El Paso Museum of Art Announces Retablo Exhibition Focused on "Saint Francis"

ALPHA OMEGA ARTS NEWS
By TAHLIB

Anonymous (Mexico, 19th Century) Saint Francis of Paola, 19th Century

TEXAS---Today's Pope Francis is the head of the Roman Catholic faith, but his namesakes: Sait Francis of Assisi and Saint Francis of Paola were of different eras, and this summer, the El Paso Museum of Art has organized an exhibition of these historic Saint Francis' that spotlights the museum's growing collection of retablos. A retablo or lamina is a Latin American devotional painting, especially a small popular or folk art one using iconography derived from traditional Catholic church art.

El Paso Museum of Art: "Saint Francis of Assisi and Saint Francis of Paola" (Ends November 2, 2014) in Dorrance and Olga Roderick Gallery: Retablo Niche; One Arts Festival Plaza, El Paso, TX; (915) 532-1707; elpasoartmuseum.org

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