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RIP Borat, Nativity Plus Animals, Hindu Abstraction

December 21st, 2007 by Menachem Wecker

  • In an interview with John Hiscock, Sacha Baron Cohen, pictured (Time), said killing off Borat “is like saying goodbye to a loved one.” [The Telegraph, UK]
  • Talk about mixing church and state: Sam Fink, 92, has illustrated “The Book of Exodus” and “The Gettysburg Address.” [Jewish Journal]
  • Barnyard animals + the Nativity story = added “context to the birth of Jesus while connecting children to a story they can understand, area religious leaders and professors say.” [Richmond Times-Dispatch]
  • Did artists invent the Three Wise Men? The ox and ass? Not quite, says Christopher Howse. [The Telegraph, UK]
  • Is Hindu art (at least in Bali) veering toward abstraction? I Wayan Karja writes, “This abstraction is based on narrative and icons, including symbolic and non-symbolic elements, with the use of color as a major component.” [The Jakarta Post]
  • “Christian and secular art have at least one thing in common - they like to have people in them,” writes Shelina Zahra Janmohamed in “Whose body is it anyway?” Yet, “Islamic aesthetic principles find the body an alien impostor to spiritual aspiration.” [The Muslim News, UK]

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