Comments on: Sculpture shows priests raising rainbow flag

By: drewski

drewski — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 10:12:07 +0000

Haloo–according to BBC website, the work is supposed to look like a model kit.

By: SteveMD2

SteveMD2 — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 05:11:42 +0000

Doesn’t the chech republic have civil unions for gay people?

Just looked it up. Like a lot of European countries, they offer registered partnerships which give some, but not all of the rights of marriage to gay couples.

And here in MD there are a number of honestly supportive and welcoming catholic churches for gay people, though they probably are under the vaticans guns.

By: Haloo

Haloo — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 01:32:36 +0000

Tubular grid doesn’t give the best mental impression of the piece’s appearance. It’s like the backing that molded plastic pieces come on with a model kit.

By: JayC

JayC — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 00:25:45 +0000

Daniel is right. Completed staff work would demand that any competent reporter provide the image to accompany an article about an image. Sloppy journalism.

By: drewski

drewski — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 17:12:57 +0000

It’s kind of an uneven work. I mean, France and the Netherlands I get. Bulgaria gets to be a toilet, while Romania has some Dracula imagery that looks more like Count Chocula.

The Polish part was dead-on, though! If the Poles complain, it makes the artwork even more relevant, and it just confirms any suspicions that Poland has a homophobic where the Church exerts too much control. Brilliant.

By: Randy

Randy — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 07:11:38 +0000

Daniel, you can view it in detail at http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/77/Entropa-rectangular.jpg

The rainbow flag raising in Poland’s piece is tough to see, but it’s below France’s piece which is “on strike” (“Grève”).

By: Stu

Stu — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 05:09:31 +0000

http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/files/images/090114_czech.jpg

probably would have taken you less time to find the photo on google than to post your question on here.

By: everett

everett — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 05:09:23 +0000

you can take a look at the picture gallery or the video on the following link:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7827738.stm

By: Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 00:42:11 +0000

Okay, so where’s the picture of the work?