[WorldNetDaily] Wisconsin is still ironing out why its schools permit drawing Buddhist and Hindu symbols and the devil, but not Christian ones. This explanation will be fun to see.
[Press Enterprise] Big claims from Leslie A. Brown, director of the Quad Art Gallery (whose site seems to be down): “I’ve read every major religious book from the Bible to the Torah to the cabala to books about Buddha. That’s what I read. That’s what turns me on … I love Hindu imagery. The supreme being in Hindu mythology is a black woman holding the head of rationality, a man, in her hand.”
[Bostonist] The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is showing “Luxury for Export,” which tells how “Indian goods and art were being shipped to Portugal, and Mughul rulers began collecting European/Christian art. The Indians and Portuguese cultures influenced each other for a few centuries, then many from both regions eventually settle in Massachusetts.” (More here.)
[Express India] Filmmaker Nidhi Tulli’s “Art in Exile” explores “the art styles of Tibetans that are slowly dying out or are fighting a losing battle against extinction.” Incidentally, “Tibetan art is primarily sacred art, with an overriding influence of Tibetan Budhism.”
[Jewish Press] Richard McBee reviews Archie Rands 613 canvas series.
[Peninsula, Qatar] “Qatar has now become the focal point of those interested in Islamic art,” according to Hadi Y. Maktabi, lecturer at the American University of Beirut.
[Florida Baptist Witness] Charles Colson’s favorite painting is at his ministry, Prison Fellowship. He recommends reading Francis Schaeffer to learn how to judge art.
[South County Journal] “Throughout my travels in Europe and the Americas, I’ve found that when native cultures were converted to Catholicism, the vernacular imagery was incorporated into local religious art; there was a blend between the beliefs of the native cultures and Catholic iconography to make religious imagery that fit the needs and trials of the times,” says Jillian Legg Romano, an art major at Austin Peay State University.
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