Arts Roundup: Saudi Arabia Bans Crucifixes and Hillary Clinton’s Bible

August 18th, 2007 by Menachem Wecker

  • [PopMatters] Frank London’s A Night in the Old Marketplace (based on I.L. Peretz) works only if you “abandon all hope of actually understanding what [you are] hearing, and just kind of groove on the songs.”
  • [Jesus in Love] Money quote from the exhibit Who Do You Say That I Am? Visions of Christ, Gender and Justice: “Yesterday’s scandal is today’s museum piece. Today’s scandal is tomorrow’s masterpiece.”
  • (Right) From the Scotsman’s review of Jihad: The Musical, which it credits with “a talented young cast from the US, with a pastiche-Broadway style soundtrack and an ample helping of wit.”

  • [St. Louis Post-Dispatch] When a church becomes a theater, efforts are made to preserve the religious art.
  • [Orange County Register] “If you have qualms about visiting an exhibition dominated by religious art, you probably shouldn’t go to ‘The Arts in Latin America, 1492-1820′ at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art,” writes Richard Chang. If you have such qualms, you aren’t reading Iconia enough.
  • And in other news, Anne Rice writes on Christianity and “dark literature”, “Bibles, crucifixes, Stars of David and other religious non-Islamic items” are now banned from Saudi Arabia (it’d be a shame if someone tried to take this one in) along with “narcotics, firearms and pornography” and Nick Salamone’s play “Hillary Agonistes” features a bible on Hillary’s desk.
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