MOMA and the Guggenheim are telling a judge they truly own two Picassos, though Julius H. Schoeps, great-nephew of German Jewish banker Paul von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, who originally owned the works, says Mendelssohn was forced to sell them. [NY Times, CBC]
New York Magazine posts on The Ten Most Anti-Christian Movies of All Time.”
Benedicta Cipolla of Religion News Service writes revealingly on who the Magi really were. [Washington Post]
Male nudes are showing up in large numbers at Art Basel Miami Beach. [ARTINFO]
Musicologist H. Wiley Hitchcock, pictured (image: newmusicbox.org), whose PhD was on the sacred music of Marc-Antoine Charpentier, has died at 84. [MusicalAmerica.com]
Sally Big Woods weighs in on the Vatican censored cell phone religious icons: “In my mind, it keeps religious art in our daily lives.” [Grand Foret]
Edward Sadie has a pragmatic take on religious art. “Because of the perennial church-state disagreements about religious signs/symbols in the public square, many commentators argue that the church should sponsor its own religious art for public viewing,” he wrote parishioners. “I agree.” So Sadie bought land, and is installing “statues expressing a fundamental Catholic teaching taught and believed by Christians of all denominations, yet familiar to non-Christians and to people of other faiths and no faith.” [The Charleston Gazette]
On angels, cherubs and other heavenly messengers in art, from the talk, “Angelic Visions,” at the Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk. [Newport News, Va., Daily Press]
“My artistic gift is from God, and I want to share it with the rest of the world,” says Milton Pagan. “I look through the Bible and read the Bible, and I get my inspiration for most of my paintings from all of the stories.” [The Times, Munster, IN]
“The real point is that it is God who looks at us, not we who look at God,” says Mary Katsilometes, founder of the Mount Angel-based Iconography Arts Institute. “We are truly God’s icons. God prays us into being, not the other way around.” [Catholic Sentinel]
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