Arts Roundup: Fighting Over Holocaust Art and Why This Last Supper?
April 15th, 2007 by Menachem Wecker
The Israel Museum vs. The Company for Locating and Retrieving Assets of People Who Were Killed in the Holocaust: Who better represents Holocaust victims?
[AP, via San Diego Union-Tribune]
Elizabeth Shaheen on lotus flowers and their significance in Buddhist and Hindu art.
[Gulf Daily News]
Bizimama on “Watchers In the Night” by Thomas Blackshear, which is “one of the most powerful Christian art pieces, reminding us that God always protects us, sending His angels even while we sleep.”
“With such unceasing attention, the question warrants asking: Why this ‘Last Supper’ [of da Vinci’s]? Why has it become so fixed in our collective imagination?”
[Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]
Berlin’s Museum for Islamic Art is showing work damaged in WWII bombings.
[IRNA]