[Jerusalem Post] “I bring Arab and Jewish art here so that people can see another kind of dialogue between artists in Israel,” says Abu Shakra, who directs the Israel-based Umm el-Fahm Art Gallery.
[Skidmore College] Art history professor Rob Linrothe has won a Getty grant to study “Esoteric Buddhist (Tantric) deity Vajrasattva within South, Southeast, and East Asian social and religious networks during the eighth through 12th centuries.”
[Tomah Journal] Score: The Tomah Area School District - 0, students who want to use religious art symbols - 1. Thank God this argument from one of the art teachers did not fly: “Gangs have been a concern at Tomah High School. Because of the myriad of gang symbols, some of which use religious type symbolism [we] felt that it would be impossible to differentiate between certain gang symbols and religious symbols.” (HT: Ed Brayton)
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[SF Chronicle] Here’s a peculiar lede from David Ian Miller: “If I asked you to name the major artists who have produced a body of work with strong religious themes, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Botticelli and Rembrandt would probably come to mind. Whomever you chose, chances are that Andy Warhol wouldn’t make the list.” Am I too involved in this religious art business that I am making assumptions, or don’t most folks know Warhol made a ton of religious works?
Image: “Jane Dillenberger, Berkeley art historian and author of “The Religious Art of Andy Warhol.” Photo by Nicholas Ukrainiec. SF Chronicle.”
