In today’s Ha’aretz:

‘The work, "HIM" by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan, has drawn many visitors since it was installed last month. It is visible only from a distance, and the artist doesn't make explicit what Hitler is praying for, but the broader point, organizers say, is to make people reflect on the nature of evil.
One Jewish advocacy group, the Simon Wiesenthal Center, this week called the statue's placement "a senseless provocation which insults the memory of the Nazis' Jewish victims."
"As far as the Jews were concerned, Hitler's only 'prayer' was that they be wiped off the face of the earth," the group's Israel director, Efraim Zuroff, said in a statement.
However, many others are praising the artwork, saying it has a strong emotional impact. And organizers defend putting it on display in the former ghetto.
Fabio Cavallucci, director of the Centre for Contemporary Art, which oversaw the installation, said, "There is no intention from the side of the artist or the centre to insult Jewish memory."’

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Ah well, reflections on the nature of evil – that can explain almost any piece of art.

Probably it’s only a matter of time before we have a statue of a praying Atta near Ground Zero.

Rumors have it that Mr. Cattelan is now working on a statue of the pope and the Ayatollah in the midst of an act of sodomy. This statue is to make people reflect on the nature of lust in contemporary society.