RELIGIOUS ART | TALK OF WEEK

AOA NEWS

ART TALK OF WEEK was dominated by the art prize wins of Islamic artists including the 60th annual Blake Prize for Religious Art by video artist Khaled Sabsabi for "Naqshbandi Greenacre Engagement" (above). The three AOA questions for this week are:

1. What does it mean when an Islamic artwork wins a 60 year old Religious Art Prize founded by a Catholic Priest?(Comment Here)
2. What is England's biggest Islamic Art prize? (Comment Here)
3. If Jesus Christ were here today, would he have big muscles and sport tattoos? (Comment Here)

Listed below are a few other stories of this past two weeks in the world of religious art. The stories are grouped by the five largest faith traditions, with an additional category for other. We invite you to comment on them too and anything else too.

BUDDHIST ART:

• Buddhism and Art, a Path to Understanding (Saint Louis Beacon)
• Pulitzer Foundation's Buddhist Exhibit includes Loan from Nelson-Atkins (Houston Chronicle)

HINDU ART:

• Indian Artist Raising Profile of Ceramic Art (The Hindu)

ISLAMIC ART:

• Flurry of Bay Area Muslim Arts and Activism Countered Stereotypes (Mercury News)
• England's Islamic Art Pize: The Jameel (Arab News)
• Oakland Children's Museum Cancels Palestinian Art Show (San Francisco Chronicle)
• Khaled Sabsabi's Islamic Artwork wins Australia's Religious Art Prize (ABC News)
• Islamic Art Prize Goes to Algerian Artist, Rachid Koraïchi (Creative Boom)

JUDAICA FINE ART:

• Review: Repertory Theatre's 'Red' Launches City's Theater Season (Saint Louis Post-Dispatch)
• NYC's Jewish Museum Presents 'Ezra Jack Keats: A Creative Response to 9/11" (Broadway World)
• Jewish Outrage at Mel Gibson's Newest Jewish Role (Sydney Morning Herald)

CHRISTIAN ART:

• BELIEVER FOR ARTISTS: Presbyterian Pastor Barbara Huisman of Iowa (AOA News)
• Albrecht Durer Engravings at Hillstrom Museum of Art in Minnesota (Minneapolis Star Tribune)
• 7 Controversies That Shaped the Debate About 9/11 Art (Art Info)
• From the Traditional Christian to a Broader & Inter-Religious (Sydney Morning Herald)
• Massachusetts's Artist Paul Crimi's view of Ground Zero (Patriot Ledger)
• For Sale, at Last, Thomas Kincade Toilet Paper (Swamplot)
• Modern-Day Christian Painter Shows Jesus with Muscles and Tattoo (The Christian Post)
• David Mach's Controversial Religious Art on Display at Edinburgh Festival (Culture 24)
• Video: Randall Terry's "Dirty Street Kids" (Vimeo)
• Janet McKenzie's "Black" Jesus on Display in Chicago Museum (AOA News)
• Review: Face of Jesus Exhibit Comes to Philadelphia Art Museum (The Christian Post)

RELATED ARTS:

• The Faith Devotional Art Requires, Need Not Be Religious (The Guardian)
• Religious Art is About Being Human (The Guardian)
• "They" Censored an Artist's Vision of 9/11. Now You SEE it. (Washington Times)
• 7 Controversies That Shaped the Debate About 9/11 Art (Art Info)
• Sculpture, "Miracle on Stairwell B" a tribute to 9/11 Presented by Ireland to USA (Irish Central)
• Video of Week: Never Forgot. Forever Grateful. A 9/11 Tribute (YouTube)
• Video: "I Will" PSA for 9/11 (YouTube)

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