Arts Roundup: Principal Brings Black Magic to School and a Christian Biker Boy
August 8th, 2007 by Menachem Wecker
[New York Post] Maritza Tamayo might decorate her house with “primitive and religious art from Colombia and her husband’s native Peru,” but she’s being canned for trying to turn Unity HS in Manhattan where she is principal into a “Hogwarts wannabe.”
[Orthodoxy Today] Dn. James Bryant writes, “Being a Christian artist does not mean that the artist works only in the realm of religious subject matter … We must perform and create our works in the taverns and among the tax collectors, maintaining our integrity, often where even our overtly expressed point of view is unwelcome.”
(Above) “Paul Pletka, Los Hermanos de Sangre, detail. This work is a great mix of biker boy tattoo art and Latino Christian art. It’s too bad it’s situated in a small space where you can’t get back and really study it,” writes roberta on artblog.
And in other news, Harrison Scott Key wonders if good people make good art, Ivan Chan creates a sacred blue hippo, we’ve all known HP is Christian, but here’s another argument and Penn State Students on Holocaust art.