Arts Roundup: 600 Honduran Sacred Pieces to be Returned and Elton John vs. Internet
August 6th, 2007 by Menachem Wecker
Honduras is returning more than 600 pieces of sacred art of “incalculable historical value” stolen from churches over the past 13 years, reports CNA. HT: James, The World… God.
“What can be more demoniacal than to suggest a connection between the Hindu swastika and Adolf Hitler?” demands Gaurinath Shastri in a letter to Stabroek News in protest of a writer’s “campaign” to “denigrate Hinduism as much as is possible.” See Iconia’s interview with Sanjay Mistry, a spokesman for the Hindu Forum of Britain, here.
Alan Noble posts on Bezalel on works of art that confirm beliefs rather than challenge them.
If art must move someone to change, would a work of art reveling in the majesty of God’s creation be entertainment? If the viewer already understood that the world was beautiful and a painting would only reinforce that belief, would it be entertainment?
In other news, Symeon writes an interesting response to Evangelicals Start Push in the Arts, Saul Adler of Herzlia Middle School is looking for Jewish posters to decorate his classroom, Deborah Solomon interviews chronicler of “the vanishing world of working-class Irish Catholics” Mary Gordon, Sir Elton John wants the internet shut down, Rick Garnett posts on Flannery O’Connor and Christian art and Jennifer Tiszai posts on a lecture from Christ Community Church in Franklin, Tennessee, on A Christian World View of Culture and the Arts.