Arts Roundup: Spending $4 M on Shiva and Lodz Ghetto Songs
April 5th, 2007 by Menachem Wecker
Obama spokeswoman Jen Psaki on the Obama-as-Jesus sculpture: “While we respect First Amendment rights and don’t think the artist was trying to be offensive, Sen. Obama, as a rule, isn’t a fan of art that offends religious sensibilities.”
[Hartford Courant]
The Cleveland Museum of Art has paid $4 million for the 1,000-year-old life-sized sculpture “Shiva as Brahma,” pictured.
[AP]
In his photographs and paintings, which sound like Wyeth’s in their strange narratives, Harrison Haynes’s “color itself seems to transmit meaning, in the symbolic fashion of renaissance religious art.”
[Independent Weekly]
Scot McKnight on Anderson’s and Bowden’s, “Faith and Vision: Twenty-five Years of Christians in the Visual Arts.”
[Jesus Creed]
“(Yiddish music) is a very direct connection to the Jewish world that existed in Europe before the Holocaust,” says David Kaufman, who has created the documentary Songs of the Lodz Ghetto. “That’s why that music is so powerful to me.”
[Town Crier Online]