SABBATH ART | NEWS IN REVIEW

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By TAHLIB

Art of the Week: "Christ in the Garden of Olives" by Paul Gauguin

Below is a listing of major religious arts news for the past week, Sunday, February 20 thru Saturday, February 26, 2011, from the USA and around the world. If we missed anything, please let us know at sabbathart@alphaomegaarts.com.

• Mississippi's Plans for Civil Rights Museum draws hope, suspicion - The Commercial Appeal
• President Obama Seeks $125M for new African American Museum - Politico
• Indianapolis Museum of Art Spotlights African American Artist Thornton Dial - Indianapolis Star 
• First United Methodist Church Celebrates the Arts with a 12-Day Winter Showcase - Grand Rapids Showcase
• Religious Life Council Sponsors "Religions Night at the Museum" - The Daily Princetonian
• "Crossroads" Unearthed at Boston College - Milford Daily News
• Christians Work work behind the scenes to change Hollywood - Worldnet Daily
• Gay couple denied entrance to Creation Museum event - Louisville Courier-Journal
• New Bible is a work of  art "for eternity" - Des Moines Register
• Review: Jan Gossert at the National Gallery - The Telegraph
• Haiti's Scars, and its Soul, Find Healing on Walls - The New York Times
• Lecture: We are all Warhol's children - Seton Hall University
• Las Vegas Businessman buys major religious art collection - MMD Newswire
• Exhibit of Vatican Pieces Explores Religious Iconography over the Years - Treasure Coast Palm News
• Polish Great is Dead: Jerzy Nowosielski - The National News
• Review: "Of Gods and Men" is a Martyrdom Masterpiece - ABC News
• Theology Professor Communicated through Art in New Mexico - Chicago Trib Local
• History's Bestseller in Type at Houghton Library - The Harvard Crimson
• Berlin couple sells rare religious art from around the world - Daily Times
• A skater whose artwork is Bible inspired - The Daily Gamecock
• Bali: Art, Ritual, Performance at Asian Art Museum - San Francisco Chronicle
• 400 Years of the King James Bible - The Times
• New work by controversial artists won't go on view at Colorado museum - The Associated Press
• A Religious Treasure Trove at Princeton University - Berkley Patch
• Cultural Prescriptions in Finland - National Post
• Student art inspired by the Bible - Williams Lake Tribune
• Art Review: Gauguin, The Self-Invented Artist - The New York Times
• Manuscripts discovered of one of the worlds oldest religions - Sify News
• Churches making movies - Religion & Ethics Newsweekly
• An Interior of Spiritual and Artistic Subtlety, Rothko Chapel at 40 - Wall Street Journal