THE WASHINGTON POSTBy Philip KennicottWASHINGTON, DC - The National Gallery in Washington, D.C. will presents the exhibition "The Gothic Spirit of John Taylor Arms from May 15 - Nov. 27, 2011. John Taylor Arms (also on view in VA) was a conservative artist, and he knew it. He started making prints in 1914, a year after the epic Armory Show in New York introduced European modernism to the philistine shores of the New World. Gothic churches were a perfect subject. Arms aligned himself with the Gothic revival, with artists who, for confused but...
Monday, 9 May 2011
AOA TODAYINDIA - Founded over 50 years ago, Indian based ANI (www.aniin.com) is today South Asia 's leading multimedia news agency with over 100 bureaus. When it comes to covering South Asia , ANI goes across the globe to bring news of and from South Asia, wherever it takes place. The result is a complete service, multi-faceted in the depth of its coverage, and extensive in its reach. ANI covers almost all areas of interest including news as well as religious arts such as how faiths come together to create art tapestries. Today's video...
EL DEFENSOR CHIEFTAINNEW MEXICO - As far as we know, all Indian pueblos prehistoric and historic had their religious shrines. Perhaps the most common form was a simple rock cairn, at which religious leaders deposited offerings and recited prayers. A spring, a mountain, or even a lake, as at Taos Pueblo, could in itself be regarded as a holy place and have sacred cairns or petroglyphs associated with it. One of New Mexico’s most fabled shrines is Towa Yalane, a flat-topped mountain rising a thousand feet above a sandy plain, just three miles southeast...
THE RECORD DELTABy Amanda HayesArtist Sheri Gaudet stands in front of the mural she painted at Chapel Hill United Methodist Church.WEST VIRGINIA - A local artist has helped bring the stories of Jesus to life through the creation of an 80-foot-long by 8-foot-high mural at Chapel Hill United Methodist Church. Sheri Gaudet spent roughly two months painting the scenes of Jesus on the Christian Education hallway. Chapel Hill UMC’s pastor, Chapel Hill...
Sunday, 8 May 2011
THE JOURNALBy Michelle BruchMINNESOTA - Nick and Rosie Heille host the annual Art-A-Whirl trolley tour. Nick and his wife Rosie helped found the Northeast Minneapolis Arts Association (NEMAA), they are often spotted at gallery shows, and they continually add to a personal art collection that represents about 40 artists. In addition to serving as founding members of the Northeast Minneapolis Arts Association, Nick and Rosie advised the city on its Arts Action Plan, which is meant to strengthen the artists’ presence in Northeast. They also founded...
AOA TODAYNEW JERSEY - Resurrection Parish, a Roman Catholic Church in Randolph NJ, is the first venue in the mid Atlantic region to exhibit and host an informative art lecture on life-size replica of Michelangelo's masterpiece, La Pieta, May 13 at 8 p.m. The sculpture is cast from a prototype made from a mold of the original located in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome and is on display now through May 31. The art lecture will be conducted by Ms. Ivannia Vega-McTighe, a current Ph.D. candidate in Art History at Rutgers University, NJ. [li...
BY ERNEST BRITTONWhat a week of news! A South Korean man was crucified on a wooden cross while wearing a cross of thorns. Osama Bin Laden is dead and Pope John Paul II was Beatified. Also, the future head of the Church of England got married; we celebrated the 400th birthday of the King James Bible; and of course Lady Gaga released her controversial Judas video. In the midst of all this religious news, pageantry and art, I prepared for the Spring board meeting of the Alpha & Omega Project for Contemporary...
"BEHOLD THE MAN" (1606) by Caravaggio, and other religious and spiritual arts news stories of the past week are listed below. The stories are grouped into five faith categories: Buddhist; Jewish; Islamic; Christian; and Other. BUDDHIST-HINDU:Norton Simon Museum's "Sculpture from the Hindu-Buddhist World" (AOA Today)Getty Museum's "God's of Angkor" (AOA Today)The art, the truth and the compassion (The Epoch Times)Ai Weiwei's Zodiac...
Saturday, 7 May 2011
THE TENNESSEANBy MiChelle Jones"Judah Buddha" by Leonard Piha, 69 x 80 x 3 inchesTENNESSEE - The Arts Company’s loft-like second floor has been taken over by The Intimate World of Leonard Piha, a whimsical marriage of religious iconography, personal symbolism and folk art traditions. Piha had been expressing his self-described obsession with Judaism through prints, drawings and other works filled with “little Jewish men with yarmulkes.” He dropped...
USA TODAYBy Ann OldenburgGaga's as a swaggering Mary Magdalene biker chick opposite actor & rapper Rick Gonzales' smoldering Jesus.NEW YORK - Lady Gaga's new controversial video for Judas, her second single from her May 23 album, Born This Way, has arrived. In it, Gaga stars as Mary Magdalene leading a motorcycle gang on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. Gaga explained last week to MSN that "theme of the video and the way that I wanted to aesthetically...
Thursday, 5 May 2011
RIDGEFIELD PRESSBy Macklin Reid"This is not a portrait" (2011) by James EsberCONNECTICUT- Since January, Osama bin Laden’s face has glared out from the walls of The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum on Main Street. New York artist James Esber’s ‘This is not a portrait’ exhibition features more than 100 drawings of Bin Laden’s face, created by a variety of people he invited to trace from and remake a drawing he’d done, based on a familiar photo image...
AOA TODAYNEW YORK - Internationally acclaimed Chinese contemporary artist Ai Weiwei has re-interpreted the twelve bronze animal heads representing the traditional Chinese zodiac that once adorned the famed fountain-clock of the Yuanming Yuan, an imperial retreat in Beijing. "Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads" is the artist’s first major public sculpture project. "Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads" is the centerpiece of a global, multi-year touring exhibition...
HAARETZBy Dalia Karpel Dor Guez (2011)ISREAL - On his father's side he's a third-generation Holocaust survivor, on his mother's side the scion of a prominent Palestinian Christian family. In his work, artist Dor Guez, 29, explores his roots while refusing to be labeled. "I have full confidence in my identity. All the definitions such as I'm a Jew, I'm an Israeli, I'm a Palestinian, I'm a Christian Arab, are something that I don't want...
THE EPOCH TIMESBy Hon. David Kilgour"A tragedy in China" Oil on Canvas 48"x 36" (2004) By Yuan Li.CANADA -Since 2004, this exhibition has toured more than 200 cities in 40 countries. The pieces were done by artists who practise Falun Gong (or Falun Dafa), an ancient discipline which seeks to improve body, character, and ethics. It contains the essence of traditional spiritual systems, like Buddhism and Daoism (Taoism), combined with a set of gentle...
HIGHLANDS TODAYBy Pamela GlinskiJames Ward paintingFLORIDA - Artist James Ward (b. Ohio) creates from his "heart and soul" and has found his inspiration not only in his vast life experiences and in nature but also in his strong faith in God. Ward's vividly colorful paintings, sketches and pottery are on display at the Highlands Art League at 1989 Lakeview Drive in Sebring. A very lean, healthy 64-year-old, he still works out vigorously five...
A visitor walks behind an ancestor spirit mask (AP) GERMANY - The U’mista Cultural Centre in Alert Bay, British Columbia, Canada and the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (Dresden State Art Collections) in Dresden, Germany are collaborating on an exhibition project that will examine, compare and contrast the role of the gift as well as illustrate the gift-giving rituals and ceremonies within two very different cultures: the Kwakwaka‘wakw First...
CONTACT MUSICNEW YORK - Lady Gaga has downplayed the religious aspects of the video for her latest single Judas, insisting she had no plans to launch an "attack" on the Christian faith. The star revealed the promo for the second single off her Born This Way album on Thursday (05May11), and the controversial star immediately came under fire from religious groups for its imagery. The video shows Gaga as Mary Magdalene, who is embroiled in a modern-day love triangle with Jesus and his betrayer, Judas, with Christ's disciples represented by leather-wearing,...
THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNEBy Glen Warchol"The Fourth Thousand Words" By Adam BatemanUTAH - The museum’s “The Matter of Words,” a three-artist exhibit that has been attracting and challenging visitors since it opened last month, is a case in point. The eye-popping, jaw-dropping sculpture is Adam Bateman’s “The Fourth Thousand Years,” some 100,000 books formed into a towering monolith. In installing the 41-ton Bateman sculpture, a base had to be built to...
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCHBy Nancy Gilson"Ecce Homo" Behold the Man (1606) By CaravaggioOHIO - A painting by Italian master Caravaggio will serve as the centerpiece of an exhibit opening in October at the Columbus Museum of Art. "Ecce Homo" ( Behold the Man) - to be lent by the Musei di Strada Nuova, Palazzo Bianco in Genoa, Italy - will headline "Caravaggio: Behold the Man! The Impact of a Revolutionary Realist" as part of the museum's celebration...
THE OREGONIANBy Nany HaughtEthiopian Christian manuscriptOREGON -The Hallie Ford Museum of Art has created an exhibit titled "Glory of Kings: Ethiopian Christian Art From Oregon Collections." It continues at the museum, 700 State St. in Salem, through June 12. Ethiopia, clinging to the rugged highlands of sub-Saharan Africa, has been home to a unique strand of Christianity that traces its history back to the Queen of Sheba and ancient Israel's King...
Wednesday, 4 May 2011
SOUTH FLORIDA GAY NEWSBy J.W. Arnold FLORIDA -Since the development of language, words have been used to uplift and celebrate, but also to denigrate and hurt. In response to the hateful language of the fervently anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church, Kevin Cobb (b. Indiana) and Andres Almeida (b. Ecuador) are using the fundamentalist sect’s own words against them to celebrate love and diversity. The couple created the God Loves Poetry project, an art...
AOA NEWSJust in time for the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible, Lionsgate is set to release a docudrama that portrays the story of one of the most venerated books in history. “KJB: The Book That Changed the World,” hosted by award-winning actor John Rhys-Davies (The Lord of the Rings, Indiana Jones & the Last Crusade), walks viewers through history, explaining the origin, significance and impact of the King James translation. The host recounts how the King James translation was birthed, beginning with the ascension of James I to the...
USA TODAY/APKOREA - The body of a man with his hands and feet nailed to a wooden cross and a crown of thorns on his head has been found in an abandoned stone quarry, South Korean police said Wednesday. A man wearing only underwear, with a wound on the side of his torso and nylon strings tied around his neck, arms and stomach, was found crucified Sunday in Mungyong, about 115 miles southeast of Seoul, said Chung Ji-chun, chief of the violent crime section at Gyeongbuk Provincial Police Agency. Two smaller crosses were erected on each side...
OKLAHOMANBy Isra CheemaOKLAHOMA - Uzma Muzaffar feels a closeness to God whenever she paints. “I wrote one of the chapters of the Quran on a tile,” Muzaffar said of the Muslim holy book. “I made it with so much effort and it filled me with feelings of satisfaction.” The Muslim artist lives in Oklahoma and paints with oil, acrylic and watercolors and paints ayahs, or verses of the Quran, on her canvases. “We're driven to capture the beauty we see in the world in whatever medium we create in, and I'm no different,” said Oklahoma artist Cynthia...
WASHINGTON, DC - The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) immediately issued a statement which said: "We join our fellow citizens in welcoming the announcement that Osama bin Laden has been eliminated as a threat to our nation and the world through the actions of American military personnel. As we have stated repeatedly since the 9/11 terror attacks, bin Laden never represented Muslims or Islam. In fact, in addition to the killing of thousands of Americans, he and Al Qaeda caused the deaths of countless Muslims worldwide. We also reiterate...
Tuesday, 3 May 2011
FLAVORVILLE"Stained Glass Window" (2011) By BanksyCALIFORNIA - The Museum of Contemporary Art's first major U.S. museum survey of graffiti and street art traces the genre from the 1970s to the present, concentrating on key cities where a unique visual language or attitude has evolved. It runs through August 17 in Los Angeles. Art in the Streets will feature paintings, mice media sculptures, and interactive installations by 30 of the most dynamic...
BBC'Cathedral Works' enables visitors to see contemporary art in a religious contextUNITED KINGDOM - The Cross is the most potent and revered religious symbol in Western art and culture. It is this symbol that has become the subject of a new exhibition at Truro Cathedral. Local artist Michael O'Donnell has installed 25 paintings, each of which depict a cross. The show will start in Truro and remain there for a month before travelling to other cathedrals...
BELTELER RADIO COMPANYBy Yelena BormotovaVladimir Prokoptsov, director of the National Art Museum of BelarusRUSSIA - The exhibition of scared art is being showcased at the National Art Museum during the Easter days. The restorers worked hard on the icons forwarded from the Zhirovitsy Monastery. Seven restorers of the National Art Museum opened the holy beauty. Presidential grant in the amount of 55 million rubles was allocated for the restoration...
WORLD NEWS REPORTFRANCE - 34,000 years ago, cave art of a horse with wing(s) was etched into the wall of the 'Hillaire Chamber' in France's government run 'Chauvet' Cave System. This earliest known graphic of a Cherub pushes back the 'Dawn of Religion'. Artistic stylized grooves of the head and wing look dramatic in this white limestone carving, which also depicts insemination of a cloud and the earth. This 'new' oldest religious symbol graces the cover of just released, "God's Steed- Key to World Peace" (C) Breese/D'Aoust 2011 http://www.lulu.com/...
Ahlul Bayt News Agency (ABNA)IRAQ - AlAbbas Holy Shrine participated for the 2nd year respectively via Agriculture Division in the Department of service Affairs in the International Flower Festival III, held by the secretariat of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad on the gardens of (Zawra Park), lasted for a week. Agronomist Sarmad Naji Abboud spoke to Alkafeel website, saying, "More than 90% of the flowers and seedlings were to participate in the festival...
Monday, 2 May 2011
EVANSVILLE COURIER & PRESSBy Sara Anne Corrigan "King David and the Harp" by Carol Bosko, painting enter in the Third Annual juried exhibition at Christian Fellowship Church. INDIANA - The Third Annual Olive Tree Art Show and Sale will run through May 15 at Christian Fellowship Church at 4100 Millersburg Road. This year, the theme is the book of Psalms. Josh Schuler, internal communications director and college pastor at CFC, said Olive Tree...
VOICE OF RUSSIAMarc Chagall "Wedding ceremony". Photo: RIA NovostiRUSSIA - Works of the great painter Marc Chagall on biblical themes, imported from France, have first been displayed at the St. Petersburg Art Center. The exhibition «Le Bible» offers 60 lithographs of the Master, illustrating events of the Old Testament. The biblical theme deeply moved the artist all throughout life. He admitted to having been fascinated by the Bible at an early age....
THE METROPOLITAINBy Alan Hustak Montreal's former Erskine American ChurchCANADA - The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts newest pavilion is as calm and as uplifting as ….. well, a church. Which it once was. The old Erskine American Church, a brownstone Sherbrooke St. landmark since 1894, has been converted into a $40-million temple of art and music known as the Claire and Marc Bourgie Pavillion. The run of galleries adds 2400 square metres of exhibition...
SAN DIEGO MUSEUM OF ARTPRWebSalvador Dalí. The Ascension of Christ, 1958. Oil on canvas. Pérez Simón Collection.CALIFORNIA - For the first and only time in the United States, The San Diego Museum of Art presents the exhibition "From El Greco to Dalí: The Great Spanish Masters from the Pérez Simón Collection." Displaying 64 Spanish oil paintings, sculptures, and drawings from more than 25 master painters, the exhibition, on view from July 8 to November...
CHARLOTTESVILLE NEWS & ARTSBy Andrew CedermarkVIRGINIA - Locally, the melding of religious and secular arts communities can thank groups like the New City Arts Initiative, the Garage, and Bifrost Arts. These groups, their ties to faith invisible, serve up some of the most vital art in town, pushing back against the widely-held notion that the church, today, is a cultural regurgitator or a voice against risqué, challenging art. Providing patronage for the arts “grows out of our understanding of who God is, that God is the God of creation...
Bronze (samrit in Khmer)CALIFORNIA - Bronze (samrit in Khmer) is of enduring significance in Cambodian culture. The Cambodian mastery of the medium will be highlighted in a focused exhibition at the J. Paul Getty Museum, "Gods of Angkor: Bronzes from the National Museum of Cambodia," on view through August 14, 2011 at the Getty Center. The ancient capital of the Khmer people at Angkor, located in northwest Cambodia, once formed the heart of a large...
GoddessCALIFORNIA - The Norton Simon Museum presents "Where Art Meets Science: Ancient Sculpture from the Hindu-Buddhist World, a focused exhibition of primarily Cambodian sculpture from the Norton Simon foundations’ permanent collections, examines the connoisseurship and conservation involved in identifying and preserving these ancient objects. The exhibit is on view in the Museum’s small rotating exhibitions gallery on the main level through...
PRESS TVMahmoud Farshchian explains his designs for the shrine of third Shia Imam, Hussein (PBUH).IRAN - Iran has unveiled the designs created for the shrine of the third Shia Imam during a ceremony with veteran Iranian miniaturist Mahmoud Farshchian. The prominent artist and creator of the designs announced that Imam Hussein's (PBUH) shrine would be built during the next six months and promised that it will be a masterpiece of religious art. “I...
THE BIRMINGHAM NEWSBy Greg Garrison This is the flyleaf for the King James Bible, which was first published 400 years ago, in May 2, 1611. (Contributed)ALABAMA - It's now 400 years old, archaic, dated and some would argue not as accurate or easy to read as later translations. But there is something special about the King James Bible, which was first published in May 1611. "I love the King James Version; it's my favorite translation," said Beeson...
Sunday, 1 May 2011
CATHOLIC ONLINEBy F.K. BartellsROME - Today on this Divine Mercy Sunday [Yesterday] the Mass for the Beatification of Venerable Pope John Paul II will begin at 10:00 a.m. It is truly a sacred moment for which the world has long yearned. During the Rite of Beatification, Pope Benedict XVI will raise to the Altar his beloved friend and predecessor, a truly extraordinary Pope whom the entire world knew and loved, and whose memory will remain infused...
COAST NEWS GROUPBy Wehtahnah TuckerCALIFORNIA - A few residents urged City Council on April 27 to grant amnesty to a surfing Madonna mosaic secretly installed under a railroad trestle along one of the town’s busiest roadways. The speakers requested that the piece of art be left alone to adorn the city’s main entrance. “It fits the definition of graffiti,” said Richard Phillips, assistant city manager. Several people asked the council to let it remain in place for at least 90 days and urged the city to grant amnesty to the mosaic’s creators if they...
ALPHA OMEGA ARTSBy Ernest Disney-BrittonKENTUCKY - This August, join the AOA Meetup at the "Creation Museum", a one-of-a-kind, high-tech museum, filled with animatronic displays that tells the compelling story of the creation of life on this planet to proclaiming the Bible as supreme authority in all matters it addresses. The weekend theme is Prepare to Believe.Highlights of this two-day, August 6 & 7 AOA Meetup includes:Saturday, Aug. 6 - 6pm Meetup at Dewey's Pizza followed at 7:15pm by movie, Harry Potter & the Deathly...
"My only objective is to paint a Christ so moving that those who see him will be converted." ~ GEORGE ROUAULT, artist By TAHLIBLAST EASTER, we visited Saint Louis, Missouri to see the Museum of Contemporary Religious Art, and we were so impressed that we immediately put it on our calendars for Easter 2011. This past week though, I received the bad news that the museum would be closed for Easter weekend. Sad, but undeterred, I contacted the museum's...
THE NEW YORK TIMESBy John OrtvedTheophilus London, a hip-hop artist.NEW YORK - Called either a “black hat” or Borsalino, for the style’s most famous and expensive brand, the simple hat is most commonly associated with ultra-Orthodox non-Hasidic Jews, as well as members of the Chabad-Lubavitch sect, the Hasidic group based in Crown Heights. While the tradition of Jews wearing black headgear goes back ages (it was a sign of mourning for the loss of...
Saturday, 30 April 2011
ALPHA OMEGA ARTSBy Ernest BrittonThere is no place like Oklahoma City, and there's no larger collection of Abrahamic Bibles on display anywhere else in the world. Join us for "Passages" at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art on Saturday, July, 9, 2011.Connect with: Greg Disney (@GregoryDisney)Exhibit Title: "Passages, The Bible Experience"Day/Time: Saturday, July 9, 2011 at 10 amLocation: Oklahoma City Museum of ArtCost: $10 for non-membersRSVP: Call...
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