Online auctioneer house eBay has pulled a series of paintings entitled 101 Views of Jerusalem by Montreal artist John David Margo because they were painted with human blood, a feature which violates eBay’s house rule of “trafficking in human body parts.” (And that’s why you can’t buy a new liver online, holmes.) The pieces are reported to be “unremarkable” save the fact that the pigment was supposedly culled from a blood drive attended by Ontario-area Jews, Muslims and Christians and frankly, we’re unimpressed: it’s been done before.
Image is of Margo’s controversial “Boom Boom Goes to New York,” depicting a plane in the shape of the Arabic word for “God” heading towards collision with a Manhattan skyline created out of Hebrew pictographs. In our humble and uneducated opinion: Tired, pedantic, cheesy.
In other, less bloody eBay Jewish news, ten truly talented artists have created original tzedkah boxes to benefit the Jewish Federation of Central New Jersey; get yer bid on now.