(Image: One of Michal Ayalon’s “Chuppot of Joy,” which she plans on entering in Chicago’s Jewish Art competition. Courant.)
[24-7 Press Release] Kate Rushford Murray’s “A Field Guide to the Saints: The Traveller’s Illustrated Handbook To Church Art” offers a “fun and easy way to identify the saints found in churches and museums, and to learn their stories.”
[Jerusalem Post] 52 Transylvanian folk icons with Biblical themes are on exhibit at the Jerusalem Artists House, including an “unusual depiction” of Jesus’ circumcision with “a bearded mohel wielding a knife nearly as large as the infant … It’s a rare visual acknowledgment of the Jewish origin of Jesus.”
[National Post] Laura Rosen Cohen wonders why the Canadian Jewish Congress can’t let up on “dubious or even nonexistent significance to the average Canadian Jew” like Darfur–where there are no Jews–and on trying to relocate Nazi-looted art. Instead, Cohen wants the CJC to focus on education, camp fees, assimilation and Israeli hostages.
[Nextbook] “It’s abundantly clear why the critic Robert Hughes once wrote that Kitaj ‘draws better than almost anyone else alive,’” writes Jude Stewart. This claim is absurd (Kitaj is not particularly great at drawing in my estimation), but the rest of the piece is pretty good.
[The Intelligencer] “Chassidic pop artist” Rabbi Yitzchok Moully combines “bright bold color with warm, timeless Judaic and Chassidic images” and “intertwines the history and deep culture of the Chassidic world with the bright and colorful world we live in today.”
[BNN] Lent is for meditation, and “There is perhaps no greater manner in which to contemplate the mysteries of the life of God than through the ancient art of icons,” writes Hugh McNichol.
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