Arts Roundup: Religion at Eurovision and Selling Nazi-Looted Art to Pay Lawyers’ Fees
April 3rd, 2007 by Menachem Wecker
Sree posts on artist Mohammed Ali who is bringing a tour of Islamic art to the U.S. I posted on this here, and requested more information from the press contact, Azeem Khan, and have yet to receive a reply.
[SAJA Forum]
Interest in Middle Eastern art has increased “considerably” since 9/11, but “Islamic art cannot make people knowledgeable.”
[Turkish Daily News]
A painting of gay Muslem men?
[Entschuldigen Sie bitte!]
Jmyers weighs in on Joshua Blankenship’s post on Christian Art, Parody, and Creativity.
At Eurovision art, Bulgaria and Romania offered icons and saints, “Perhaps they are asserting their Christians roots after Communism” says Professor Godart, “an Italian art expert and archaeologist of Belgian origin who is cultural adviser to President Giorgio Napolitano.”
[Times Online]
Another Holocaust looted art mess, this time involved DIA and the Toledo Museum of Art. According to historian Sidney Bolkosky, “the problem when you’re dealing with Holocaust questions is that frequently both sides are true … There’s a war on and everybody is suffering losses of all sorts.”
[Freep]
This war ensues as parts of the “largest known collection of Old Master paintings stolen by the Nazis” are scheduled for auction on April 19 at Christie’s. A large part of the proceeds is said to be going to paying lawyers’ fees.
[Telegraph]