Editing National Gallery of Victoria (section)

===''Piss Christ''===
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During a retrospective of [[Andres Serrano]]'s work at the NGV in 1997, the then [[Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne]], [[George Pell]], sought an injunction from the [[Supreme Court of Victoria]] to restrain the gallery from publicly displaying ''Piss Christ'', which was not granted. Some days later, one patron attempted to remove the work from the gallery wall, and two teenagers later attacked it with a hammer.<ref name="LawText" /> Gallery officials reported receiving death threats in response to ''Piss Christ''.<ref name="LivingWater">{{Cite web |url=http://www.martinrothonline.com/lw10.htm |work=Living Water to Light the Journey |title=Chapter 10: When Blasphemy Came to Town |last=Roth |first=Martin |year=1999 |publisher=MartinRothOnline.com |access-date=25 January 2021 |archive-date=24 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210224150919/http://www.martinrothonline.com/ |url-status=live }}</ref> NGV Director [[Timothy Potts]] cancelled the show, allegedly out of concern for a [[Rembrandt]] exhibition that was also on display at the time.<ref name="LawText">{{Cite journal |last=Casey |first=Damien |date=June 2000 |title=Sacrifice, Piss Christ, and liberal excess. |journal=Law Text Culture |url=http://dlibrary.acu.edu.au/staffhome/dacasey/Serrano.html |format=Reprint |access-date=October 25, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100609135113/http://dlibrary.acu.edu.au/staffhome/dacasey/Serrano.html |archive-date=June 9, 2010}}<!-- alternate URL: http://dlibrary.acu.edu.au/staffhome/dacasey/Serrano.htm --></ref> Supporters argued that the controversy over ''Piss Christ'' is an issue of [[artistic freedom]] and [[freedom of speech]].<ref name="LivingWater"/>