Arts Roundup: A Sexual Jesus and Bubbe the Muse

September 20th, 2007 by Menachem Wecker

  • [The Open Press] Janet McKenzie, whose “Christ Mother” depicts Jesus as a woman, says “Sometimes ‘controversial’ art simply comes forward, like it or not. It is like a scream; you are doing it before you realize you are.” See also here.
  • [News @ Princeton] “Dunhuang Manuscripts and Paintings: An International Symposium Honoring James and Lucy Lo” will transpire at Princeton next Friday.
  • [NY Magazine] Jerry Saltz writes on the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi. Money quotes (HT: Conde Nast Portfolio.com):

    Numerous government sites warn that Israeli passport holders and travelers whose passports bear Israeli stamps will be denied entry visas to the Emirates. Thus, the Guggenheim — founded by a Jewish family, an institution with Jewish curators and scores of works by Jewish artists, designed by the Jewish Gehry — isn’t really welcome either … As of July 2006, it was reported that no nudes were to be shown, nor anything deemed “controversial.”

  • [NY Jewish Week] Painter Jonathan Santlofer turned to writing after a fire destroyed his work and “for some reason I’d lost my direction in painting.” He says he owes it all to his bubbe.
  • [Queerty] Matthias Von Fistenberg, director of Passio, which is sure to make “Fox News anchors explode,” says “My Jesus is gay, stunningly beautiful and sexy. He gets aroused like all of us … The movie is a gospel, passio, version of the Jesus story according to me.”
  • [Edmonton Journal] Ryan McCourt to his Hindu leader critics: Getting upset about a nude Ganesha is “rather quaint.”
  • And in other news, a Swedish artist hides from Al Qaeda, Joel Gargano reflects upon Hispanic and Islamic art, Solving Light Books brings ancient Greek Noah paintings to the web (HT: Christian News Wire), Saint John’s Abbey and University is at work on the first handwritten, illuminated Bible in 500 years, Jewschool finds a Yom Kippur and Holocaust restitution angle on “The Young and the Restless”, Marlene Miller shows the “shadow” and “dark” side of religious art, and Ahmad (Drew) Marshall, 23, who was introduced to Islam through a class in Islamic art, converts to Islam.

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