"Zuerst die Fuesse" will continue to anger the Pope
The board of the foundation of the Museion in the city of Bolzano voted to keep the work by the late German artist Martin Kippenberger, the museum said in a statement.
Earlier in August the pope had written a letter to regional president Franz Pahl denouncing the sculpture.
Pahl himself has long opposed the display, even staging a hunger strike this summer and saying he would not seek re-election unless it was removed. The sculpture "pokes fun at the Catholic population and offends religion and the pope", he said. Link
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