(Right) The parting of the Red Sea (L), Jesus’ crucifixion (C) and the Garden of Eden (R). From Glue Society’s God’s Eye View. [Sydney Morning Herald]
Sex and war goddess, Inanna (or Ishtar), one of the earliest goddesses known, has sold for a record-shattering $57.2 at Sotheby’s. [Time]
Some journalists and politicians briefly viewed the Baghdad Museum yesterday. Clearly the collection and the question of it reopening are surrounded by many question marks. [NY Times via artinfo]
“Religious art operates under the principle that God wants the best.” From Bernard Holland’s review of the St. Thomas Choir of Men and Boys’ performance of Handel’s “Messiah.” [NY Times]
Salvador Dalí’s religious works are on exhibit at William Bennett Gallery, Manhattan. Who knew the Surrealist would criticize the “decadence of modern painting,” which he saw as “a consequence of skepticism and lack of faith”? [First Things]
Richard McBee writes on the “Important Judaica” auction at Sotheby’s on December 19. [Jewish Press]
Shopping for art for the holiday season? Beware! “The most ‘Christmassy’ paintings are often deeply disturbing when you look a bit harder,” like Matthias Grünewald’s Isenheim altarpiece. “Why did a medieval artist paint Christ in this shocking way?” [The Guardian]
Carol L. Douglas, “a Christian and a painter,” posts on The Adoration of the Magi in the Snow (1567) by Pieter Bruegel the Elder. She observes, “Bruegel was addressing a problem which bedevils our own age: how can the artist tell an ancient, unchanging story in a new language?” [Watch Me Paint]
“Atheism alone is a rotting corpse. I substitute art and nature for God — the grandeur of man and the vast mystery of the universe,” writes Camille Paglia recalling her talk Religion and the Arts in America. [Salon]
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