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Roundup: LDS Church Aplogizes for Religious Art Vandalism, an Anti-Koran Film

March 11th, 2008 by Menachem Wecker

  • [Salt Lake Tribune] Their mistake was posting their pictures on Photobucket. Now, 2 years later, the LDS Church is apologizing for its missionaries, who showed “disrespect” by photographing themselves adding a Mormon taste to a church in Colorado. See image, where one man holds a copy of the Book of Mormon. See also this and this.

  • [SF Chronicle] 33 Islamic women artists are showing work in Kabul. One says, “I couldn’t paint during Taliban regime because I didn’t have enough material, and I wasn’t allowed to go out and buy paint.” Another adds, “I was young and couldn’t go to the art center to learn because as a girl, I wasn’t allowed to go to school.” An interesting article (though perhaps a bit one-sided), with a sad ending.
  • [CBC] After spending his time at a Zen Buddhist retreat and losing his savings, Leonard Cohen is back on tour for the first time in 15 years.
  • [Mixed Multitudes] On “The Holocaust in the Arts & Education.”
  • [PopMatters] On getting chummy with musicians. Is John Zorn right to try to silence journalists? (I covered Zorn a while ago here.)
  • [Religion News Blog 1, 2] To show an anti-Koran film, or not to show it? Network Solutions gives it the thumbs up; Dutch stations say no way.

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