New York City will get a 75-story skyscraper next to MoMA, which “suggests an atavistic preoccupation with celestial heights.” [NY Times]
(Image) A reliquary cross from the Kimbell’s show “Picturing the Bible: The Earliest Christian Art.” Image: Fort Worth Weekly.
Gallery Judaica in LA launches a blog.
Money quote from an article titled “Exhibit devoted to blondes will be more fun“: “It’s about illicit pleasure and, contrarily, it’s about purity. Roman prostitutes had to wear blond wigs, or bleach their hair, to make them identifiable. Yet in Christian art, the Virgin is often depicted as having golden hair,” says Kemper Art Museum curator Catharina Manchanda. [St. Louis Post-Dispatch]
As it gets colder, one person who isn’t hibernating for the winter is Chocolate Jesus. And he seems to be surprisingly comfortable in a wide range of temperatures. [The Pace Press]
altmuslim (whose podcast is good when it comes out) interviews the “four authentic, home grown, real life Middle Eastern American comedians” of “Axis of Evil,” who “use their experiences and comedy to play on society’s misconceptions, paranoia, and fear to not only break stereotypes but also emerge as new voices representing a diverse and dynamic Arab/Iranian-American experience.”
“This speedy journey through 14 centuries — at the rate of about one object per decade — invites visitors to compare and contrast artifacts from various times and places with similar objects from different times and places,” writes David Pagel of “Medieval Treasures From the Cleveland Museum of Art” at the Ghetty. “With great efficiency, ‘Medieval Treasures’ shows how malleable Christianity was, how various peoples adapted its forms and stories to fit their own needs and traditions. As you move through the three large galleries, you see one of the world’s great religions evolve — in a manner similar to that of the creatures and species described by Darwin in his account of evolution.” The best part is “Jonah flying — Superman-style — out of the monster’s mouth.” [LA Times]
“It is necessary to demonstrate that Islamic art exists not in isolation, but alongside the other great Asian artistic traditions, from India to Japan,” insists Oliver Watson, the Ashmolean Museum’s keeper of Eastern Art. [Top News]
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