Interesting OC Weekly story about censorship allegations surrounding an artist whose work sexualizes the Catholic icon of la Virgen de Guadalupe.
The controversy started on Aug. 1, when Ernesto Cienfuegos, editor of the Chicano nationalist website La Voz de Aztlan, attacked Fullerton Museum Center Director Joe Felz for including "decadent lesbian artist" Alma Lopez in a exhibition titled "The Virgin of Guadalupe: Interpreting Devotion."Lopez has been the subject of outrage before. Her mixed-media effort Our Lady — a piece re-imagining the Virgin as a sexy Chicana, roses strapped across her breasts and pelvic area, legs and a firm abdomen exposed for all her children to see — provoked demonstrations when it debuted at a Santa Fe art gallery in 2001.
