Arts Roundup: Sacred Silks Sell, Tazhib Works Do Not
July 31st, 2007 by Menachem Wecker
Religion News Service writes on Angela Coppola, 64, president and creative director of the Cardiff-by-the-Sea, Calif.-based Sacred Silks International. SSI now features 20 patterns, from
the mandala-like Sri Yantra to Judaism’s “fire and water” windows from a San Francisco synagogue to Sir William Richmond’s mosaics in St. Paul’s Cathedral in London. The latest design, called the “Peace Silk,” incorporates “the golden rule” as expressed in the scriptures of many faiths, from Islam to Shinto to Yoruba.
(Above) “Moses Praying While Joshua Fights the Amelekites,” engraving, 1627/30, by Jan Lievens. Art of the Bible.
“If the masters cannot make a living out of their work it will fade away. They have to be protected like an endangered species. This is our heritage, our identity,” tazhib artist Mehdi Moghiseh told the Daily Star’s Hiedeh Farmani, who observed in the subheading, “Artists spend months perfecting a piece, but are unable to sell their work in a climate prizing modern art.”
The Mordechai Anielewicz Creative Arts Competition (on Holocaust art) received 437 entries: 305 in the written categories, 123 in the visual arts and nine in multimedia, reports the Jewish Exponent.
Sixteen 8th Century AD Buddha idols are headed to Singapore, reports the Malaysia Sun.