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Roundup: Occident to Orient, Liturgical Junk

March 29th, 2008 by Menachem Wecker

  • [Daily Star, Lebanon] Dutch Muslim leaders are urging Muslims worldwide to “not react with attacks on Dutch embassies or tourists” in response to the film Fitna, which is being called anti-Islam. (Below, with French subtitles.)
  • [The Guardian] Laura Cumming, before she had twins, found herself noticing new aspects of Madonna paintings that perhaps only a longing mother could see. “We need images, quite apart from anything else, where we have no words.”
  • (WARNING: Please view image below at your own risk, both for disturbing images, and its controversial portrayal of Islam.)

  • [PewSitter.com] Hugh McNichol writes on the “liturgical carnage,” including the lamentable fact that “Catholic religious articles have found their ways into all sorts of locations that are not associated with their original purposes,” replaced by “junk.”
  • [NY Times] “We’ve had major exhibitions on the influence of Islamic culture on Europe,” writes Holland Cotter. “We’ve had relatively few that trace influence the other way, Occident to Orient.” Hunter College has one.

  • [Forward] “I am a Jewish person by religion, but I do not create ‘Jewish art,’” Zadok Ben-David says. He has a sculpture on view in Hanover Square (London).

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