RELIGIOUS ART | NEWS OF WEEK

ALPHA OMEGA ARTS
By Disney-Britton

Aïda Muluneh's "99 Series" (above) is a photographic series interpreting "Hell" as inspired by Dante Alighieri's epic poem written in the 1300's. Note the deathly white make-up and the three enveloping bloody red hands. "The inferno," said Aïda Muluneh, "is not down below; it is here, ever-present...." Forty African artists, including Aïda Muluneh explore "The Divine Comedy" at the Savannah College of Art and Design Museum of Art, and that makes "99 Series" my NEWS OF WEEK.

In other religious art news from across the USA, and around the world:

• Buddhist Art of Week: Takashi Murakami's exhibition at Gagosian Gallery [More News]
• Christian Art of Week: 'Vodou: Sacred Powers of Haiti' at the Field Museum [More News]
• Hindu Art of Week: Hinduism's Diwali, Once Hidden, Now Lit Large [More News]
• Islamic Art of Week: Doris Duke's Amazing 'Arabian Nights' Palace [More News]
• Judaic Art Week: Poland's New Museum of the History of Polish Jews [More News] 

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