• Canadian artist Cosimo Cavallaro's sculpture My Sweet Lord uses chocolate to recreate the famous image of Jesus. The artwork was originally on display during Holy Week at New York's Roger Smith Lab Gallery. Due to protests, the sculpture was taken down. In October 2007, the work was once again exhibited at the Proposition Art Gallery as part of the "Chocolate Saints... Sweet Jesus" exhibit. The original detractors, the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, agreed not to protest the second viewing because the new exhibit did not occur around or play upon a Christian holiday.

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  1. Opening: October 2008
  2. Artist: Cosimo Cavallaro
  3. Galleries: Proposition Gallery (2008) and Roger Smith Lab Gallery (2007)
  4. Protest group: Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights

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  2. "Remembering the mystical/transcendental quality and rushes of memory associated with the Catholic wafer received during Holy Communion, he recalls equating that ritual of ecstasy to his own experience of [[Chocolate|chocolate]."—
  3. Proposition Gallery StatementReuters: Naked Chocolate Jesus Rises Again (October 17, 2007)

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