Arts Roundup: Sarah Silverman’s One Night Stand with God and a Feast to Celebrate Artists
March 9th, 2007 by Menachem Wecker
The National Museum Institute of History of Art, Conservation and Museology is sponsoring an international seminar titled “The Art of Central Asia and the Indian Sub-continent in Cross-Cultural Perspective” in New Delhi. [Malaysia Sun]
Many Christians are upset about Sarah Silverman’s “one-night-stand” with a “Black God,” pictured. I thought it was hilarious. [Christian Post]
“Iconography is as much a spiritual discipline as it is an art form,” writes Boze!, so “Ought there not be a feast day commemorating the many artists, known and unknown whose skill with paint, chisels, and needles make us stop, reflect, and even stand in awe of God?” I agree completely.
Islamic artist Razwan Ul-Haq of Halifax, who is teaching tolerance to students at Our Lady and St Patrick’s, says “Islamic art used calligraphy a lot because it is not customary to depict Allah, for instance, as Christians paint pictures of God and Jesus.” [Times & Star]
Stumbling Down the Road wonders: “How does doing weak, derviative art glorify Him?”
From Clay writes of “sacred art” of Chinese Muslims which conveys “to strangers — none of us speakers of their native language—the quinte ssence of faith in a way no other manner could dare attempt.”
A medieval scroll in a Buddhist temple in Kyongju might have been wrongly dated. It could be three centuries younger than previously thought. [Korea Times]