[Bloomberg] Mohammed al-Shroogi of Citigroup is trying to bring Islamic art to American collectors. “Art is the method to create a real connection between the U.S. and the Middle East,” he says, “Americans don’t expect Muslims to create contemporary art.'’
[NY1] Archie Rand, creator of the 1,700-square-foot “The 613” (one per commandment) says, “There’s some conflict between the belief of the observant Jewish community and the actual allowances that the law does allow for portraying scriptural or sacred subjects.” [I took the photo of the NY1 reporter interviewing Rand.]
[Nhan Dan] The show “Buddhist Fine Arts Go Along with the Nation’s Development” contains 170 works which highlight “the close bonds between Buddhism and Vietnam’s millennia-old culture.”
[Anglican Communion News Service] The Very Revd John Drury has won one of the 10 Lambeth Degrees awarded by the Archbishop of Canterbury for “his theological scholarship, arousing interest in religious art and for his significant contribution to liturgy and church music while Dean of King’s College Cambridge and Dean of Christ Church, Oxford.”
[Viet Nam News] “In the past, all the people knew how to paint. The trade was passed from father to son, from generation to generation,” said 80-year-old artisan Phan Trach Bao of religious pictures (tranh tho), “but now, few people follow the tradition.”
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