http://iconia.canonist.com Wherever faith meets art. Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:17:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en My review of Idol Anxiety at the University of Chicago's Smart Museum appears in the Forward (link here). Here's a selection: Most of the works that appear in the exhibit Idol Anxiety, at the University of Chicago’s David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, feature Christian and pagan content. But exhibit ... http://iconia.canonist.com/2008/07/24/art-that-does-not-hide-itself/ Two of my articles appear in this week's Washington Jewish Week (neither is art related): "It's all relative: Tattoo design leads to 100-plus family reunion" (link) "Electric cars for all Israelis? That's the plan for start-up company, says rep" (link) http://iconia.canonist.com/2008/07/24/electric-cars-and-a-genealogy-website/ On the work of Meinrad Craighead, 72, who says, "From the beginning, I had a safe container in which to dream, inside the arms of my mother and my grandmother and then out into the imagery of the Catholic church." Craighead also talks about connecting to the Mother rather than ... http://iconia.canonist.com/2008/07/23/painting-the-great-mother/ Wonders John Williams. http://iconia.canonist.com/2008/07/23/should-taxes-pay-for-religious-art/ Says Calvin Carter of the boy in his painting Texas Baptism, who stands "waist deep in an impossibly deep puddle." Article and image of Carter in front of the painting: The Jasper Newsboy. http://iconia.canonist.com/2008/07/23/anything-is-possible-with-god/ Read my review of Panim el Panim: Facing Genesis, Visual Midrash by Debra Linesch and Evelyn Stettin here. Here's the lede: What do you get when you mix a Jesuit publishing company, a Reform Jewish scholar, an Orthodox Jewish painter, and a thesis on human-divine encounters? In Panim el Panim: Facing Genesis, Visual ... http://iconia.canonist.com/2008/07/23/a-confrontation-between-image-and-text/ From Heeb, of course. http://iconia.canonist.com/2008/07/22/first-ever-jewish-swimsuit-calendar/ Nextbook is very lucky; expect even greater arts coverage from it. Story here. http://iconia.canonist.com/2008/07/22/former-forward-arts-editor-alana-newhouse-named-editor-of-nextbook/ Of course Rabbi Simcha Weinstein is the one to find it. http://iconia.canonist.com/2008/07/21/a-jewish-angle-on-the-new-batman-movie/ Ben Schachter, an assistant professor in fine arts, seems to think so, and he has won a Saint Vincent College Research Grant to work on a project called “An Aesthetic Application of Jewish Dietary Laws upon Painting, Drawing and Printmaking.” Here's some more info: “Kosher Art” will apply the Jewish traditional ... http://iconia.canonist.com/2008/07/21/is-there-a-such-thing-as-kosher-art/ "And some of the worst Muslims in the world live in America," says Siraj Wahaj in the podcast "You can have the family you want" (audio at Muslimmatters.org). http://iconia.canonist.com/2008/07/18/sermon-in-my-opinion-some-of-the-best-muslims-in-the-world-live-in-america/ "Or within cultures sustained by a theist population," writes John Mark Reynolds in "Sad News for Extreme Atheism." http://iconia.canonist.com/2008/07/18/most-of-the-great-ideas-art-and-culture-of-the-world-were-produced-by-theists/ Which is supposed to open in 2010. http://iconia.canonist.com/2008/07/17/louvre-lays-first-stone-of-arts-of-islam-gallery/ http://iconia.canonist.com/2008/07/16/vote-for-iconia/ Jon Weece, senior minister at Southland Christian Church in Lexington, Kentucky, is a great preacher, who regularly tackles important material with an accessible approach and a sense of humor. In the recent series, "Seriously?!" Southland's former senior minister Mike Breaux pinch-hit for Weece on the topic of "some of the ... http://iconia.canonist.com/2008/07/15/sermon-mike-breaux-on-rabbis-talking-to-women/ Says Margot Layland of a Jewish center in West Nashville in a great article on "God and art." [Image: The Tennessean] http://iconia.canonist.com/2008/07/15/theres-only-so-much-jewish-art-to-go-around/ One person involved said he hopes "the number of Jew and Christian participants would increase." http://iconia.canonist.com/2008/07/14/islamexpo-shows-how-beautiful-islamic-art-is/ The culprit is an "interdepartmental row." http://iconia.canonist.com/2008/07/14/british-minister-advised-not-to-address-islamic-art-conference/ "The funding ... is important because the US is among the countries known to have received looted Khmer antiquities in recent years," reports The Art Newspaper (HT: ARTINFO). http://iconia.canonist.com/2008/07/14/us-gives-1m-grant-to-repair-hindu-temple/ Even as one rabbi says it is scarce in today's major religions, idolatry is "far more widespread than one may think" among Catholics, and a rabbi tells a kid to tear up an idolatrous photograph in a new film. http://iconia.canonist.com/2008/07/14/three-idolatry-headlines/ To suggest "the impermanence of everything that is on Earth." http://iconia.canonist.com/2008/07/11/9-buddhist-monks-to-create-mandala-in-hampton-va/ My review of Four Seasons Lodge, a documentary about Holocaust survivors who vacation at the same bungalow colony in the Catskills, appears in this week's issue of The Jewish Press. Here's a selection: “Four Seasons Lodge” is not your typical Holocaust documentary. On the one hand, there is the plot of ... http://iconia.canonist.com/2008/07/09/a-microcosm-of-the-afterlife/ Adi Nes' version of Leonardo, from the Israel Museum's (Jerusalem) "comprehensive survey of contemporary Israeli creativity from the past ten years," called "Real Time: Art in Israel 1998-2008." http://iconia.canonist.com/2008/07/09/israels-last-supper/ The story of Anne-Imelda M. Radice. http://iconia.canonist.com/2008/07/09/from-nixer-of-shows-that-really-push-the-envelope-to-digital-protector-of-everything/ The Republican running on an "anti-Sharia" platform tells FrontPage: Our education system is bankrupt at all levels. Our universities do not prepare our young minds to see anything bad about Islam. Here in Nashville at Vanderbilt University you can get a degree in Islamic Studies and never read the life of ... http://iconia.canonist.com/2008/07/08/vijay-kumar-in-part-critiques-islamic-art-education/ Is initially a flop, but later becomes a better character, says Dara Horn. http://iconia.canonist.com/2008/07/08/jewish-art-dealer-in-de-kretsers-the-lost-dog/ Money quote on protecting the artifacts: In the churches, the artifacts are alive ... Putting them behind glass would take them out of their environment. It would be like putting them in a museum. http://iconia.canonist.com/2008/07/08/french-churches-increasingly-a-target-for-thieves/ Terra cotta warriors in an image accompanying Holland Cotter's NY Times review of Chinese art. http://iconia.canonist.com/2008/07/07/going-to-museums-for-the-air-conditioning/ But so far there are no buyers. http://iconia.canonist.com/2008/07/07/christian-art-meant-to-support-a-granddaughter/ British designer Patrick Gallagher tells The National (Abu Dhabi). http://iconia.canonist.com/2008/07/07/i-am-fascinated-by-islamic-art/