News roundup 9/25: Kahlo, Gehry, Shiva, Andalus
September 25th, 2009 by Menachem Wecker
Many works by Frida Kahlo (Was she a Jewish artist? See here & here) may be fakes, according to this AP story.
Frank Gehry — no doubt he is Jewish — won’t be designing Atlantic Yards in Brooklyn, the Nets new home, Slate reports. According to Witold Rybczynski, that’s good news.
Forget Al-Andalus, Andalus publishing is bringing Israelis and Arabs together by translating Arabic books into Hebrew. Or one hopes this will further bring the two parties together…
“One of the greatest motifs in religious art, the symbolism embodied in the dance of Shiva has been both a challenge and/or a source of utter confusion when treated thematically in dance.” So begins a great piece in The Hindu by Leela Venkataraman.