Calling all sinners: for his latest work, artist Maurizio Cattelan wants people to confess

Italian art provocateur to play priest in Catholic-inspired work that invites people from around world to be absolved “If you’re here to confess your sins, press one …” That’s the message awaiting callers to a special hotline from Thursday. But it’s not a digital Catholic church initiative for the Easter weekend: instead, it’s the latest intervention of the Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan, who scandalised some with his 1999 sculpture La Nona Ora (The Ninth Hour), which showed a lifesize Pope...

By Joanna Moorhead