Arts Roundup: Muslim Rugs and Abu Ghraib Paintings
March 21st, 2007 by Menachem Wecker
A Jewish museum is opening in Munich, showing comic book artist, Jordan B. Gorfinkel.
[Religion News Service]
The Spiritual Art Festival is almost upon us, including the piece “You of Little Faith.”
[Yarbi Design]
Istanbul is hosting an international conference on oriental carpets, including an exhibit with prayer rugs at The Museum of Turkish and Islamic Art.
[Today’s Zaman]
The only divine image the Koran allows is Nur or light, so stars appear in Muslim design. Here’s how they made their designs using tiles.
[VOA]
Paintings of Abu Ghraib demonstrate that “Images of torture in a human context (no saints - no glory in the sky) is (like images of sex in a way) so powerful for the viewer that it’s difficult to respond except to the acts portrayed.”
[Body Impolitic]
In the age of Duchamp and beyond, art gets mistaken for trash all the time and discarded. But da Vinci’s “St. Jerome” is a bit more surprising.
[Bloomberg]
The Christian Post has a field day with “American Idol” Christian contestants, including Chris Sligh, who has a spokesman for fundamentalist Bob Jones University upset, even as his home church holds weekly parties to support him. See also here.