After a three month sojourn in Milan, Italy, I can't help but laugh my ass off when I read a piece like this, I saw it posted on Artforum.com:

In unrelated news, Daniel Libeskind has found himself in a battle of words with Italy's Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi. According to Mediabistro and The Independent, the conflict began after Libeskind submitted his plans for a new set of buildings in Milan and Berlusconi said the structures were “not manly” and emanated a “sense of impotence.” The skyscraper, intended to be situated between buildings designed by the British architect Zaha Hadid and her Japanese colleague Arata Isozaki, curves dramatically, a feature that displeased Berlusconi, who also threatened to cancel the permissions for the project unless the architect revised his plans. Libeskind has fired back with his own volley of angry words. "In Fascist Italy, everything that was not 'straight' was considered 'perverse art,'" said Libeskind. "My tower is inspired by the work of Leonardo da Vinci, and great Italian culture. [Berlusconi] does not have the time or intellect to study these. As an American and Jew brought up in Poland, I find Berlusconi abominable. His concept of nationalism, of closing borders and denying what's different, is repugnant."