[Telegraph, UK] Jealousy, gullibility, aliens, and demons and dragons in Christian art: the liabilities of going green.
[amNY] Who let the Jews out? As synagogue affiliation declines, more participate in Jewish culture.
[LA Times] He was known for fighting for Holocaust restitution, but now Jonathan Petropoulos has resigned as director of Claremont McKenna College’s Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide and Human Rights, accused by a client of trying to “extort 18% of the painting’s market value as payment for shepherding its return.” (Why have none of the stories pointed out 18, or Chai, is a very Jewish amount to charge?)
[Cape Cod Times] Fra Filippo Lippi’s “Madonna and Child With Two Angels,” in which the Virgin is “sacrilegiously speaking, hot. Stunning. With colors that popped. With perspective and depth.”
[AP] Though the Church calls religious architecture a priority, tens of thousands of France’s small churches are falling into debt, and no one quite knows what to do.
[Guardian, UK] “It is perfectly plausible that the wonder I find in art, beauty and the universe might one day be explained by genetics, optics and neurology - and to an extent already is,” writes Simon Jenkins. “This does not diminish my wonder, but has no bearing on the existence of God.”
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