Updates from Derren Brown and the Enigma Crew

“Jackson Potts II is just 10 years old, but he’s already learning that controversy can be good for an artist.

The budding photographer was asked to participate in an annual exhibition, at the Xnihilo Gallery here, based on the Stations of the Cross, or final footsteps of Jesus Christ before he was crucified, according to the Bible. Jackson responded with a powerful staged image—of a police officer beating a child before a crowd of onlookers.

The photo, titled “Station 7,” was his way of depicting in a modern context the biblical moment when Jesus falls for a second time, with the cop replacing the Roman soldiers, and the boy representing the innocence of Christ.

“Dad asked me whether I wanted to do an older interpretation, or modern, and I chose modern,” Jackson said. “The police officer—he is just doing his job.”

But the image proved too much for the Ecclesia Church, a progressive Christian house of worship that shares its space with the Xnihilo Gallery. The exhibit started March 6 and runs to April 25, but the church, which controls the space, allowed Jackson to briefly display his art only during the show’s opening, then ordered it taken down.”

Read more at Wall Street Journal (thanks, Tammy)