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Parliament Hill • The Beaverbrook Art Gallery’s decision to exhibit Andres Serrano’s Piss Christ is not brave. It was once transgressive, but no longer. It is not great art in any serious sense. It is a photograph of a crucifix submerged in urine. The Beaverbrook Art Gallery is recycling a controversy that peaked long ago. This is nostalgia for transgression, which is perhaps the most banal category of art programming imaginable. (The 1980s called and would like its photo back.)The sophisticates who run our cultural institutions would never display a comparable desecration of Islamic sacred imagery. They know what would happen. They know the reaction would be swift and fierce. They also know Christians will absorb the insult and turn the other cheek. So they know they are safe.New Brunswick patrons who thought our beloved Beaverbrook was an important gallery with something important to say deserve better.