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Roundup: Christ’s (Sculpted) Nakedness, Rembrandt and Lent

February 26th, 2008 by Menachem Wecker

  • [Jewish Chronicle] A London synagogue was leafleted on Shabbat since the chief rabbi didn’t insist a Jewish collector destroy his Terence Koh statue of “Jesus with a phallus.” (See MadPriest’s blasphemous and sexual response to the article here.)
  • [Star-Banner] Lent + Rev. Hal McSwain = the teaching series “Lent & Rembrandt.” McSwain says, “It’s like reading the Gospels. You can read them as literature or you can enter them. You can be a part of the scene.”

  • Image: Linda Henry painting onstage at Christ Chapel Bible Church in Fort Worth during ArtReach Sunday, which featured more than 200 works by church members. From Star-Telegram.
  • [Sydney MH] From “old, cranky Jewish art historian” to “tall, lanky 40something from a Norwegian, mid-western American background.” Siri Hustvedt swaps narrators.
  • [The Independent] Donald Macintyre contrasts the Israel Museum’s show of looted art with museumgoers’ tendency to ignore provenance.
  • [NY Times] On “Pretty Ugly” comics: Basil Wolverton, “Mad mainstay who specialized in things ugly,” spent 10 years on the Bible story “serialized in The Plain Truth magazine, for the Worldwide Church of God.”
  • [Washington Times] Anthony McCall’s installation at the Hirshhorn’s “The Cinema Effect” suggests “beams of heavenly light in centuries-old religious art and the geometric abstractions of modern painting.”

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