Buddhist musician turned painter, Joni Mitchell compares Pres. Bush and company to Hitler. She says of her song “Strong and Wrong”:
I was mad at the government. Mad at Americans for not doing something about it … They were so quick to impeach Clinton for kinky sex and so slow to do something about … the country turning into Nazi stormtroopers, and it’s still smoggy. … It was all that losing freedom and everybody just kind of oblivious, like what happened in Germany.
A great idea from the Boulder Jewish Community Center: tours of homes with Jewish art. But if conversations I’ve had with many collectors are in any way representative, it’s probably not a very good idea from a security perspective to advertise what valuable art you own.
Brooklyn-based Benjamin Butler, whose work draws from Islamic art, is part of a phenomenon of artistic tree-huggers of sorts, according to Emma Gray: “Xerxes, the King of Persia, was so besotted with a Plane tree that he dressed it up in fancy jewels. Here in Los Angeles, we know how he feels. Swamped with automobiles, surrounded by dying palms (the city now plants hardier sycamores), Angelenos have gone green in a big way. They make art about trees.”
A San Antonio church now owns the city’s first Hispanic Jesus. “I never thought about what Jesus looked like before this. It’s like I’m looking at myself,” says the man who oversaw the installation. “My wife doesn’t even believe it has brown skin. She says, ‘Every time we’ve seen a figure of Jesus, it’s always been white.’ I told her, ‘Just wait until Sunday and you’ll see.’”
“I want to add ‘Jewish art and craft’ or something like that to my blog roll. But where are the Jewish crafters? And do they blog?” asks Debbie Harris. Feel free to let her know.
Cologne’s Catholic archdiocese has a new museum. Swiss architect Peter Zumthor was sure to use a simple design, “unlike some contemporary museums given sensational shapes to pull in the crowds. ‘It’s the opposite here. The people should come because of the art,’ he said.”
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