Cincinnati Art Museum Cancels Buddhist, Hindu and Islamic Exhibit

December 10th, 2007 by Menachem Wecker

  • Here are several Holocaust-related stories from JTA. Even as the Muslim Council of Britain no longer boycotts Holocaust Memorial Day (release here), 67-year-old Gerd Honsik is going to jail for denial. Kieran Shinkins, a 10th-grade teacher in Ukraine, asked students to create Nazi election posters, the B’nai B’rith Anti-Defamation Commission asked the Australian government to ban Thompson, a rock group it calls neo-Nazi, and Germany is dropping a suit against Wikimedia Deutschland for posting too many swastikas.
  • The Cincinnati Art Museum has canceled the Buddhist, Hindu and Islamic art exhibit, The Arts of Kashmir, upon learning not all the pieces would arrive for the show from the Asia Society. Curators felt “it wouldn’t have as much impact without all the original objects.” [Cincinnati Enquirer]
  • Israeli archaeologists say they’ve discovered Queen Helene of Adiabene’s 2,000-year-old home. [JTA]
  • Sivia Katz Braunstein’s dreidels will appear at the White House Hannukah party. [The Courier Post]
  • The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art is showing “Asian Art in Focus: Guanyin Personified,” which includes an “extremely rare and unusual” extremely rare and unusual” bodhisattva. [Herald-Tribune]
  • From an article in the Independent on Noel Fielding:

    studying fine art at Croydon Art College, [he] had to create a performance piece based on a book. He chose the Bible. The piece began with Fielding hanging from a crucifix, and suitably sombre music playing. Then he leapt off the cross to “Jumpin’ Jack Flash” and squirted holy water at his fellow students from a water pistol. “Everyone thought it was the funniest thing ever,” he says, with chirpy honesty rather than arrogance, “so I thought maybe I should do some stand-up. I did my first three gigs in character as Jesus, because I didn’t know whether I’d be funny as Noel. Then I thought, ‘Jesus is a pretty powerful character, how am I going to follow that?’”


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