“The Holocaust of Hiroshima,” is there Child Pornography in Christian Art?

June 10th, 2008 by Menachem Wecker

• St. Stanislaus Kostka Church (Chicago) has a new 9-foot, hand-carved “monstrance of Our Lady of the Sign, Ark of Mercy.”

• Nawal Gebreel started a clothing label in 2000 inspired by “the geometric patterns in Islamic art and the rhythm of nature”

• Here’s a list of the 10 “most incredible art heists of the modern era,” with religious art overrepresented

• The Vatican reopened “the largest and most luxurious of the pagan tombs”

• Many practicing Muslims have “a variety of popular devotional images” like calendar art, reports Yousuf Saeed

• Al Qaeda may be behind an attack near the Danish embassy in Pakistan, perhaps protesting the Danish cartoons

• Joseph Graber’s biblical chalk drawings focus on “heaven, and how to get there”

• Happy 3,048th birthday dear King David; read about it here

• Buddhist artist Ikuo Hirayama discusses his “huge, 6-paneled canvas called ‘The Holocaust of Hiroshima’”

• Daniel Grant writes on the Christian art market

• Richard Silverstein solicits Jewish graphic design for his blog; a storm ensues in the comments

• Religion and art historian Maureen Korp was surprised to find Pakistani students fascinated by Hinduism

• Are depictions of the (nude) infant Jesus child pornography?

• Is “Ardeshir Mohassess: Art and Satire in Iran” offers “a unique artist’s perspective on a tumultuous period in Iran’s history art”

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