[Northwest Asian Weekly] “Chinese Art: A Seattle Perspective” at the Seattle Art Museum includes 165 pieces from the permanent collection, including “grotesque” tomb guardians.
[The Guardian] “As an art-loving Jewish atheist,” Mike Marqusee often wonders, “What can the masterpieces of Christian art mean to the non-Christian?” The piece is long, but worth reading.
[Philadelphia Inquirer] Aside from buying religious art, Maurice Cusatis bought a church, which he has turned into Diamond Chapel Antiques.
(Image: Salt Lake Tribune) A neo-Gothic, mid-19th century window from a cathedral in Belgium, which now calls Anthony’s Fine Art and Antiques in Salt Lake City home.
[ARTINFO] Colombian police have caught four people suspected of stealing “a golden crown, scepter, and cape of a statue of the Virgin Mary” and part of the 1705 Riobamba Monstrance “made of gold and silver and encrusted with thousands of diamonds, pearls, emeralds, and other precious stones. It weighs 36 kilograms and is valued at several million dollars.”
[NY Sun] Cairo-born, Muslim artist Ghada Amer is showing her work in “Love Has No End” at the Brooklyn Museum. “The artist remembers herself as a young Muslim art student who, though sheltered, did not hesitate to challenge the dictates of her teachers or enlist her art-making as a means of rebelling against her restrictive upbringing,” writes Alix Finkelstein. “When a male professor failed her in his painting class, she began to experiment with the medium of thread.”
[Etownian] Christina Bucher has published “The Song of Songs and the Enclosed Garden in Fifteenth-Century Paintings and Engravings of the Virgin Mary and the Christ-Child.” It sounds like it’s worth looking out for…
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