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Anyone can hate me for saying this, but I actually find this work (image search the rest of the show) more comedic than grotesque. I don't think Caligula is an apt comparator, because Caligula was a tyrant. This look much more like trying to cast the ridiculousness of the Classics by comparing them to porn, and the ridiculousness of porn by comparing it to Classics, and the ridiculousness of al of us by revering both of them, even if it's only ok to revere one in public. Anyway, I laughed out loud. I think this Vulture writer, who I gather is a famous art critic, is taking it way too seriously.