President Pervez Musharraf is “shocked” by the death of Pakistani artist Gulgee, particularly for his impact on Islamic art. [Pakistan Times]
Christmas is the time for looking at the Old Masters. Jonathan Jones posts his five favorite images for greeting cards. [The Guardian]
“All too often we hear it said, very wrongly and inaccurately, that classical music is a ‘western Christian art,’” but “opera and ballet can be enjoyed as a human right of civilized countries … which reaches way past boundaries of religion and nationality.” [The New Anatolian]
“A Mondrian abstraction, an ancient Greek sculpture of a youth, or a Corot landscape can be as spiritually uplifting as a Buddha or a crucifix,” argues Lance Esplund. “In art, it is not what the subject brings to the artwork, but rather what the artist brings to his subject.” Read on for a crash course in Bon art. [NY Sun]
The Royal Ontario Museum is opening a South Asian Gallery, whose first exhibit will be “Playful Krishna,” which will highlight “the colourful life of Krishna, Hinduism’s most powerful divinity.” [Earth Times]
On Tanner’s Annunciation: “Let’s play the imagination game. In your mind, what would a first-century Jewish young woman of modest means look like? Think historically. Now look at the painting. What do you see? Is Tanner’s painting similar to what you imagined the scene should look like, if painted accurately?” [Baptist Press]
The Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Sparks is one silver replica of “The Last Supper” poorer, after thieves lifted it. [KOLO TV]
Joshua Cohen on Kitaj’s “Second Diasporist Manifesto: A New Kind of Long Poem in 615 Free Verses.” [Forward]
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