BOLZANO, Italy—Board members at the Museion Museum have voted not to remove Martin Kippenberger's sculpture of a crucified frog, despite condemnation of the work by Pope Benedict XVI, the New York Times reports via Reuters. The decision was made to keep the frog, which holds a mug of beer in one hand and an egg in the other, on view until the end of the exhibition of which it is a part. Franz Pahl, the Italian politician who went on a hunger strike to protest the artwork, said: "This decision to keep the statue there is totally unacceptable. It is a grave offense to our Catholic population." The president of the museum, Alois Lageder, countered that the decision is meant to "safeguard the autonomy of art institutions."