Katayun Saklat has a dream: “It would be an art museum which would house pieces on the theme of seven major religions of the world, including Judaism, Zoroastrianism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, Christianity and Sikhism, necessarily in that order,” reports the Telegraph, India. I wonder if she misplaced the “not of ‘not necessarily’” in the same place she forgot about Judaism and Jewish art.
ArtIslam, a London-based venue of abstract Islamic art, has won a Muslim News Award for Excellence. (Image from ArtIslam)
Founded by Prince Charles, the Prince’s School of Traditional Arts teaches traditional Islamic art, reports The Daily Star, Lebanon.
The Leopold Museum’s (Vienna) exhibit of Albin Egger-Lienz includes “over a dozen works of dubious origin,” according to some. The European Jewish Press reports (via AFP) one of the works was given to Hitler on his birthday in 1939. Other versions: CBC, China Post
One morning, Will Towns woke up with a revelation: “to create letters out of quarter-inch ceramic floor tiles and use them to spell out Bible verses on a plank of wood.” Since then, he’s created about 60 such pieces, reports the Chattanooga Times Free Press.
Writing on “Dumb Art Gallery Owners Make Dumb Decision to Close Dumb Exhibition” on Blogger News Network, Clarsonimus elaborates on a BBC story and wonders why Danish artists are again at the center of religious controversy.
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