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Iraqi Art, Cooper’s Erotic Jesus, SF’s Jewish Museum

June 6th, 2008 by Menachem Wecker

An “unprecedented” show, “entirely of works from wartime contemporaries of Iraq,” opens at Pomegranate Gallery in NY

“[T]here’s a sort of classic idea of the critic as a voice out of a cloud, a pocket Jehovah, which I plainly have no use for,” says Peter Schjeldahl in a great interview with Jillian Steinhauer

Jonathon Keats reviews a new book on Lorenzo de’ Medici: the patron behind Michelangelo

Letizia Moratti, mayor of Milan, says no to a projection of “montages of Christ’s genitalia” onto da Vinci’s Last Supper

Were medieval religious art and architecture essentially advertising? Follow the conversation here

Cooper Union has Bill Donohue’s attention for a show with “a crucifix in a man’s rectum and rosaries with male sex organs”

Mordy Shinefield reviews “Magneto: Testament,” yet another Holocaust graphic novel

Robert Leiter covers two new Holocaust art books (my story here)

The Contemporary Jewish Museum in SF opens June 8, here are two stories: JJ and JNW

Lorne Bell weighs in on the MFA Boston’s Holocaust art scandal

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