Arts Roundup: A Jewish Jesus and Religion After Communism
March 13th, 2007 by Menachem Wecker
Artist Clara Maria Goldstein, who converted to Judaism after marrying a Jewish man, created a controversial series of 10 paintings on Jesus’ Jewishness.
[The Lutheran, tip: ortho mom]
Who says sex sells? A new study finds that movies with a “strong Christian worldview” do better than “those that include explicit sex and nudity and/or extreme foul language.” Sounds to me like Mel Gibson’s doing. Evidentally, the researchers haven’t yet seen the exhibit in Rome on Eros.
[Christian Today]
Yesterday’s Theological Dictionary Word of the Day was in fact two words, Christian art, which “spans many segments of Christianity. Per each religious sect, art mediums, style, and representations change; however, the unifying theme is ultimately the representation of the life and times of Jesus Christ and in some cases the Old Testament.”
Relgious art’s role , says in Protestant homes shouldn’t be underestimated, says Fr. Stephen Freeman, who adds, “I am certain that my earliest awareness of God and my earliest thoughts of God were related primarily to the images I saw around me. Thus what I saw and considered was largely sentimental, but still gentle and kind.”
Philip Kennicott raises very intelligent criticisms of Robert MacNeil and his talk of art and religious fundamentalism, including the claim that art can be “an important weapon in the struggle against Islamic fundamentalism.”
[Washington Post]
Is Moscow becoming the new Jerusalem? A new exhibit, “I Believe,” is resurrecting religion after Communism.
[NPR]