Arts Roundup: The Idolatry of Creativity and Modest Fashion
March 20th, 2007 by Menachem Wecker
Binghamton University hosted a panel on moral and legal questions surrounding Holocaust-looted art.
[So spoke the semicolon]
Christians don’t seem to exhibit great interest in re-developing the Arts, although the topic does get “batted around every time a movie like Amazing Grace gets released, or a book like Anne Rice’s series on Christ the Lord.”
[The view from her]
Carl Stam’s quote of the week is about Christian art from pastor-scholar Philip Ryken: “even if God may be glorified by art that is not explicitly offered in his honor, he is most truly praised when his glory is the aim of our art,” via views from the grass.
The show “L’Chaium: Artisans of Life” promises to bring forth “the message of the Word of God for people to see. The Word is illuminated with imagery rather than in written words.”
[PrWeb]
Modern Christian artists consider themselves gods, which is essentially “an idolatry of creativity. The point of creating a work of art is ‘the shock of the new,’ creating something that hasn’t been created before, or doing something that hasn’t been done before.”
[Robyn deGroot]
In Katherine Young’s work, feminine gender anxieties meet “obsessive decoration and fervent craft usually associated with religious art.”
[Digging Pitt]
The Museum of Contemporary Religious Art is showing Oskar Fischinger: Movement and Spirit, via stlopenings.
Islamic fashion for women, “with modestly tapered fits and longer lengths that hit below the hip. [Artizara]