Arts Roundup: Supporting and Attacking the Chocolate Jesus and Arab Pop Idol
March 31st, 2007 by Menachem Wecker
The chocolate Jesus:
Defenders: rejesus, Todd’s Juris Journal, Tarnizzat, Hasta los gatos, Joan Walsh on Salon, Olio, The right outlaw, and a very provocative post on Upbeat Pessimist.
Critics: Rich Kirkpatrick, Michelle Malkin (see Daily Kos‘ response), Afronerd, episcoblog, Say anything.
Unslanted: Guardian, Reuters 1 and 2, CTV, LA Times (with news of the gallery’s creative director’s resignation), and a very intelligent post at Tesserae.
I’m also pretty surprised Evangelical Outpost has not posted on it.
Above item: Tom Waits on Letterman, singing the Chocolate Jesus.
In a post about the Times religion debate: “The pro-religion people were apparently plants. One guy’s whole argument was that religion is good because it has produced religious art. That’s just about the weakest defense of religion I have seen.”
[Penraker]
Hispanic Christian artists “portray this very tangible, very human God more strikingly, perhaps, than any other religious art I can think of.”
[Thursday night gumbo]
Al Jazeera reports on why Arab cinema is such a well-kept secret and Arab pop idol Shada Hassoun.