Another Major Islamic Art Exhibit Heads to US Museums in 2013

THE OREGONIAN By D.K. RowQurâan Manuscript Endowed as WaqfOREGON - The Portland Art Museum will be one of four museums to host a major exhibition on Islamic art over the next two years. The exhibit, "Beauty and Belief: Crossing Bridges With the Arts of Islamic Culture," is being organized by the Brigham Young University Museum of Art in Provo, Utah, and spans Islamic culture from the seventh century to the present. More than 250 artworks and artifacts...

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Year 2011: Declining Number of Atheists, But More Believers

VATICAN INSIDERBy Marco TosattiThe Dali LamaITALY - According to the annual “Status of Global Missions” study, in this first part of the millennium non-believers will lose two million seven hundred thousand members, whilst declared atheists will lose one million and 370 thousand “faithful”. Religions are flourishing in the twenty-first century, with no exception. Christianity, in all its possible variants, totals two billion three hundred million...

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Book Picks: 5000 Years of Indian Art by Sushma K. Bahl

THE HINDUINDIA - 5000 Years of Indian Art by Sushma K. Bahl. This work demystifies the story of India art spread over the millennia. This visually stunning book is a rare example of a volume that offers a panoramic view of Indian art from the pre-historic times to contemporary period. [li...

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Dalai Lama Unveils New Coffee Table Book, "Sharnam Gacchami"

THE TIMES OF INDIAINDIA - Today, Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama will unveil a coffee table book, "Sharnam Gacchami: An Album of Awakening". The book portrays India as the land where Buddha preached and where great scholars planted the roots of Buddhism. The unveiling is part of a multi-disciplinary festival of Buddhist arts and culture will bring to the capital performances and art from across Asia from Nov 28-Dec 1. The festival will...

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The New Mass Translation in Here! Why the Change? Why Now?! - Chicago Catholic

EXAMINERBy William M. Leubscher, Chicago Catholic Examiner ILLINOIS - Chicago Catholics, were you in church last Sunday? If so, you may have noticed some changes. We have officially entered the Advent season, and for Chicago’s Roman Catholics that means the church is finally implementing the much talked about “new Roman missal” that’s been announced for over a year. On the plus side, they seem to have prepared parishioners pretty well. On the downside, reactions to most of the changes have been mixed. Much of the music that Chicago area Catholics...

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Gay Americans, Censorship, And ‘After The Gold Rush’ At The Metropolitan Museum Of Art

THINK PROGRESSBy Alyssa RosenbergI spent a day at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York over the holiday, and saw two terrific exhibits: the reopened Islamic art wing, about which much more to come, and “After the Gold Rush,” a contemporary photography show. Two pieces in the latter exhibit struck me in particular. First, Philip-Lorca diCorcia took his 1991 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and used it to tweak conservatives who were hysterical over NEA funding for a traveling show of Robert Mapplethorpe’s work. In the second,...

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Hanukkah Lamps Selected by Maurice Sendak Opens at The Jewish Museum

THE BROADWAY WORLDFinal illustration for In Grandpa’s House (1985) by Philip Sendak, 1982NEW YORK - The Jewish Museum will present An Artist Remembers: Hanukkah Lamps Selected by Maurice Sendak from December 2, 2011 through January 29, 2012. This exhibition features thirty-three Hanukkah lamps of varied eras and styles, chosen by renowned author and illustrator Maurice Sendak from The Jewish Museum's extensive collection. This highly personal selection...

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Fashion Designer Joseph Altuzarra's Muse is a Virgin Mary Santos

THE NEW YORK TIMESBy David ColmanJoseph Altuzarra with his santos, an antique statue of the Virgin Mary. NEW YORK - [Mr. Joseph Altuzarra, 28, plays] the fashion game well enough to engineer a cannily timed fashion revival, like this fall’s grunge-inspired collection. So it’s surprising to hear that, until his sophomore year at Swarthmore, Mr. Altuzarra had only a personal interest in fashion, dead set on a career pursuing his concentration, art...

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Documentary "Art as a Weapon" Needs to Raise $30,000

AOA NEWSBurmese Monk by Shepard Fairey. Courtesy of Downtown San Diego MuralsThe producers of the new documentary, "Art as a Weapon" featuring celebrated street artist Shepard Fairey need to raise $30,000 by December 9 to complete the project. According to their press release, director/producer Jeff Durking was inspired to make the film when Shepard painted a 30' tall Burmese monk in his neighborhood in San Diego. The...

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High School Art Contest in India Features both Religious & Secular Images

THE HINDUAakriti, VI, Kendriya Vidyalaya, Keltron Nagar, Kannur.INDIA - The Hindu Young World painting competition was started way back in 1992 as an initiative to encourage students in art. Students from across India were asked to paint and send in their entries by post to The Hindu. Subsequently, in 2007, it was decided that all this precious talent should be highlighted for all to see and selected paintings of the winners of the consolation prizes...

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Jewish Marriage Contract Combines Art, Love, and Faith

THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE By Lisa Schencker Ketubah by Salt Lake City artist Suzanne TornquistUTAH - For thousands of years, ketubot (plural of ketubah) have been signed at Jewish weddings, in accordance with Jewish law. And though the contracts have changed over time, the tradition lives on, even experiencing, in recent years, a surge in popularity, with couples now often choosing ketubot with an eye toward displaying them in their homes. "To a certain...

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Video: Advent installation at Salisbury Cathedral.

CLAYFIREby Linda Parriott UNITED KINGDOM - Every year, Salisbury Cathedral marks the beginning of Advent with the Procession, “From Darkness to Light.” Last year’s service featured an art installation, “Light Shower,” by lighting designer and installation artist Bruce Munro. [li...

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Twin Brothers Create African American Bible Images

URBAN FAITH By Jenet Grier"Jesus loves the little children"ILLINOIS - Aaron and Alan Hicks, identical twins from Chicago, have found a way to use their dual passion for art to honor God and celebrate their African American heritage. With virtually identical styles, the Hicks brothers create unique and inspiring images of favorite and lesser-known Bible characters, as well as wholesome, true-to-life depictions of African Americans of all ages. Through...

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What is Culture? Singapore Artists Fight for Methodist Landmark

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL By Justin ZhuangIllustrator Tan Zi Xi, better known as MessyMsxi, solo exhibition ‘Ten Years of Work for Every Minute on Stage’ A tattered sticker on a lamppost greets visitors who have climbed up the 143 steps to the top of Singapore’s Mount Sophia with this question: “What is our culture?” One answer may sit just beyond, at the former Methodist Girls’ School campus that now houses Old School, an art space that has been an...

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RELIGIOUS ART | TALK OF WEEK

AOA NEWS By Tahlib"ABHAYA: AUNG SAN SUU KYI" (above) by James MacKay is one of 244 color portraits in an unprecedented new gallery show in Burma. "Abhaya" means "fearless, and is a hand gesture symbolizing peace, and dispelling fear. The gesture is made with the right hand raised to shoulder height, arm bent, and palm facing outward, and originated from the fifth Buddha, Amoghasiddhi who first used it when he gained "enlightenment" and later...

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Cutting Arts in Schools is Unacceptable in Portland

CHRISTIANITY TODAY | This is Our CityOREGON - Creativity is essential to the human experience. So what happens when arts and music become a victim of budget cuts? For Laura Streib this was a reality that was unacceptable. For Streib, cuts to arts programs meant getting involved in Portland public schools. [li...

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Atheists Launch Campaign to Get UnBelievers to ‘Come Out’

THE WASHINGTON POSTBy Kimberly WinstonThe young man in the video pulls in close to his computer camera with the trappings of a typical college dorm room — a loft bed and the clutter of cast-off clothes — piled behind him. Alex Fiorentini isn’t talking about girls, beer or football. Instead, it’s a coming-out moment of sorts. “Is it acceptable to the majority of the population to be an atheist?” he asks the camera. “Nope. Are all of your friends going...

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Three Faiths in Art at London's RED Gallery

INDEPENDENT CATHOLIC NEWSBy Anita Boniface UNITED KINGDOM - Collaboration was clearly a key to success at last night’s Faith in the City festival, part of a week long celebration of the Abrahamic faiths, hosted by the RED Gallery in London. Here, artists from Christian, Jewish and Muslim backgrounds exhibited artwork exploring common elements in their lifestyles, beliefs and practices. The central focal point of the exhibition was three, multi-faith...

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Egyptian Sculptor & Performance Artist Stages “Baptism in Black"

ARTINFO By Jason Frydman"Baptism in Black"sculpture-and-performance by Nader SadekNader Sadek’s 2011 sculpture-and-performance piece “Baptism in Black” staged a Satanic ritual that desecrated the artist’s uniquely fabricated bust of Hosni Mubarak. Performed in the politically charged White Tower in Thessaloniki, Greece, at the end of September, Sadek’s piece channeled and connected the unrest fueling both Arab revolutions and Eurozone crises. “Baptism...

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Muslim Women's Art Project of Australia Nears Ready

THE AUSTRALIANBy Ian CuthbertsonAlissar Chidiac, Producer of the Muslim Women's Art ProjectAUSTRALIA - On the outskirts of western Sydney, the Casula Powerhouse is a suburban cultural oasis. Restored from derelict status to an elegant arts pavilion in 1994, the building sits in a quiet pasture, the silence broken only by the chiming of bellbirds and the occasional thrum of a train. It is to this bucolic setting that community arts producer Alissar...

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Houston Museum Highlights Islamic Gifting Over the Centuries

VOA | VOICE OF AMERICABy Greg FlakusShah Jahan Receives the Persian Ambassador, ink, colors and gold on paper from around 1633. TEXAS - Islam has spread to cultures and regions far beyond its birthplace on the Arabian peninsula. Among its traditions is the value placed on gift giving. That Muslim tradition of gift giving is the focus of an exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston. The theme of the exhibit, which bears works ranging from the...

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Hanoi's Dream in Canada Thru December 5th

VIETNAM NEWS "Space of Buddha" in laquer by Trinh Quoc ChienCANADA - The exhibition opened on November 22 at the “Art Square” Gallery, introducing artworks by five contemporary artists from Vietnam: Trinh Quoc Chien, Vu Huong Quynh, Nguyen Minh Thanh, Ngo Van Sac and Nguyen Quang Minh. The art, which represents five ways of dreaming, features a dream-like quality — including Chien’s Buddhist-inspired mixed media lacquer paintings, Sac’s intricate...

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Happy :Thanksgiving" 2011

"Thanksgiving"John Currin (b. Colorado, 1962)C. 2003, Ink and Gouache on Paper, 15" x 18"Location: Sadies Cole, London, England and Gagosian, ...

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Nude Islamic Artist-Activist Draws Fire Plus Support

THE TELEGRAPH Israeli women posing for a photograph in Tel Aviv, to show solidarity with Egyptian blogger Aliaa Magda Elmahdy EGYPT - Nudity is strongly frowned upon in Egyptian society, even as an art form. Some liberals feared that the posting by 20-year-old university student Aliaa Magda Elmahdy would taint them in the eyes of deeply conservative Egyptians ahead of Nov. 28 parliamentary elections in which they are trying to compete with fundamentalist...

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Art As A Weapon Documentary Project Features Shepard Fairey

STUPID DOPEBy LaVar ThomasArt as Weapon Posters by Stephen FaireyShepard Fairey of Obey is well known for his works that test political beliefs and expose social disparities. To further his cause, he has explored human rights culture in Myanmar and participated in film that documents the nonparallel worlds of Buddhist morals and political ideals in the region. Art As A Weapon features interviews with the people of the struggle along with Fairey explaining...

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"Art of the Arab Lands" is New Name for "Islamic Art" Gallery in NYC

THE MONTREAL GAZETTEBy Ellen FreilichCloseup detail of an artwork done in ink, watercolor and gold on cotton cloth, entitled "Hamzanama (The Adventures of Hamza)" and attributed to artists Dasavanta and Mithra, is seen in this photo from The Metropolitan Museum of ArtNEW YORK - Fifteen renovated galleries offer fresh perspective on the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s collection of more than 12,000 Islamic works of art spanning 13 centuries and...

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Jordan's Nadia Dajani Creates Wearable Islamic Jewels

ARAB NEWSBy Marian NihalJORDAN - For a designer, a jewel represents an art form. Nadia Dajani feels a piece of jewelry exudes a woman’s mood, her identity and her frame of mind. Inspired by Islamic art and interacting with people, Nadia releases a new collection once a year.  They are a continuation in progression of a traditional Arab and Islamic art, where the Arabesque and Arabic calligraphy are customized to create the aesthetic that we...

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Theme for Burmese Human Right's Exhibit is Buddhism's "Fear Not"

BANKGKOK POSTBy Yanapon Musiket Nobel Peace Prize-winner Aung San Suu Kyi.. The name written on her palm is Soe Min Min, imprisoned since 2008.BURMA - With the recent announcement from the Burmese government about its plan to release the remaining political prisoners, the world has suddenly turned its eye to our neighbouring country and awaits groundbreaking developments. Premiering tomorrow at Serindia Gallery is "Abhaya: Burma's Fearlessness",...

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2011 Brehm Lectures on Art & Faith

2011 Brehm Lectures - Part 1 from Brehm Center on Vim...

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Vatican Cracking Down on Church Art, Architecture and Music

VATICAN INSIDERBy Andrea TornielloVATICAN CITY - A team has been set up, to put a stop to garage style churches, boldly shaped structures that risk denaturing modern places for Catholic worship. Its task is also to promote singing that really helps the celebration of mass. The “Liturgical art and sacred music commission” will be established by the Congregation for Divine Worship over the coming weeks. This will not be just any office, but a true and proper team, whose task will be to collaborate with the commissions in charge of evaluating...

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Colorado Art Museum Honors Patron Saint of Artists with "Windows to the Divine"

AOA NEWS"Virgin with Child" by Tatiana GrantCOLORADO - The Madden Museum in Greenwood Village (near Denver) hosts the juried exhibition, "Windows to the Divine" through December 3. The exhibition is part of the year-long program, Fra Angelico Celebration of Art & Spirituality sponsored by the Colorado Dominican Vocation Foundation and inspired in part by a letter from Pope John Paul ll to artists in 1999. The exhibition of over...

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Muslim Self Portraits Defy Stereotypes

THE WASHINGTON POSTBy Cecile S. Holmes, Religion News Service'Nushmia' is one of the self portraits in the 'Esse Quam Videri' exhibition on display in Rubenstein Hall. Courtesy of "Duke Today"NORTH CAROLINA - Artist Todd Drake has aimed his camera lens at truck drivers, Alzheimer’s patients and employees of an exotic nightclub. But he’s trying to build interfaith bridges by asking Muslims to turn the lens on themselves. Drake’s traveling...

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Advice for Churches Seeking to Launch "Arts Ministries"

AOA NEWSBy Ernest BrittonIn a recent blog post in the Gospel Coalition Blog, P.D. Young offers timely, and clear advice to the growing number of churches seeking to launch an "Art Ministry." His six suggestions are:First define what you mean by "Art."Name at least 5 contemporary artists before beginning your plans. Don't do it because you think it will make your church gallery the center of the art world. Don't do it to evangelize the arts community. Showcase the art being created in your own community.Read-up on Art:...

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Indiana University Art Museum Returns Painting to Berlin Museum

FOX NEWS 59Flagellation of Christ  (15th C)INDIANA - More than 60 years after it disappeared from a Berlin museum in the chaotic aftermath of World War II, a painting depicting the flagellation of Christ will return home. The Indiana University Art Museum returned the painting to the Jagdschloss Grunewald in a ceremony Nov. 21 at Charlottenburg Palace in Germany. Created by a Cologne master, the Flagellation of Christ dates to the late 15th...

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Tiny Church Beats Cathedral for UK's Biggest Art & Faith Prize

GUARDIAN | NORTHERNER BLOGAnne Mou's engraving. Intimations of frost which can be enhanced by the real thing. Photograph: John McKenzie/Healey Parish Church UNITED KINGDOM - Tiny Tyne Valley church beats Canterbury cathedral and Gormley in arts competition. Engraved glass so delicate that frost can change its nature helps scoop top prize for Northumberland to win this year's Art in a Religious Context award from the charity Art & Christian Enquiry. ...

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Bob Jones University Questions 'Fundamentalist' Label

THE CHRISTIAN CENTURYby David Gibson SOUTH CAROLINA -  [Bob Jones University] leaders are weighing alternatives to the "fundamentalist" label that has proudly defined the school (and a wide swath of the Bible Belt) since the 1920s. The Fine Arts program remains a distinctive feature. Music and drama are the lifeblood of the curriculum as students perform Shakespeare and other theatrical productions, and the university puts on a major opera every year. An art museum on campus features Renaissance and Baroque religious paintings in a collection...

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Want Catholic Art in USA? Head to Bob Jones University

WASHINGTON POST | BLOGBy John GibsonBob Jones University Art Museum Gallery lllSOUTH CAROLINA - Walking across the tidy campus of Bob Jones University, there’s no obvious sign this bastion of Christian fundamentalism is also home to one of the nation’s largest collections of Renaissance and Baroque religious art from the heart of Catholic Europe [BJU Museum]. It’s all the more surprising since the school’s old-time Protestant leaders have for years...

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Activist Painter, Scott LoBaido Paints Protest of Brooklyn Museum's Art Show

AOA NEWSBy TahlibScott LoBaido, a NYC artist and practicing Catholic has created a new work to illustrate his scorn for the decision of the Brooklyn Museum to show the video art by fellow artist "& Catholic", David Wojnarowicz. The provocative protest painting, according to The Staten Island Advance, "has found a place of honor in Borough Hall" after LoBaido was banned from the Brooklyn Museum. The painting in question depicts Arnold Lehman, director of the Brookly Museum, "shown slouching in the nude on the rim of a toilet bowl filled...

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Chagalls Synagogues up for Sale at Sothebys on Dec. 14

RUSSIAN TODAY (RT)Marc Chagall. Synagogue in Vilna, the "Kloyz" of the Vilna Gaon (1931)NEW YORK - Three rare Marc Chagall paintings featuring interiors of synagogues are to be auctioned at Sotheby’s, prompting huge interest for the Russian-rooted artist. These works are coming to the art market for the first time ever from a descendent of the original owner of the works, Max Cottin, who bought them at a 1945 exhibition at the Gallery of Jewish Art...

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Review: New Book Examines Relationship Between Fine Art & Islam

AHLUL BAYT NEWS AGENCYLatest book on Islam analyzes the artistic origins in Islam, providing the chance for artists to look at this holy religion through the lenses of fine arts. "Islam and Fine Arts" is the latest publication which explains variety of arts, their interaction with Islam and the way religious themes have appeared in artistic presentations. Written by Seyyed Abol Hassan Omrani, the ways fine arts affect the society to create a spiritual...

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Rembrandt Pays a Visit to Detroit to Show Painter's Impression of Christ

THE WINDSOR STARBy Ted ShawMICHIGAN - The face that stares back at you from 17th-century Amsterdam is the model of serenity. An anonymous young Jew, his hair tucked behind his ears and his eyes gazing upwards, has come down to us as an idealized image of Jesus Christ in paintings by Rembrandt van Rijn and his students. Just who he was is a mystery. But few artist's models have had such a profound impact on art and art history. Rembrandt and the Face of Jesus is a stunning and provocative new exhibit at the Detroit Institute of Arts, organized by...

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Mac Miller and a generation of Jewish hip-hop

JEWISH JOURNALBy Danielle BerrenEarlier this week, the 19-year-old “white Jewish rapper” known as Mac Miller reached the No. 1 spot on the Billboard charts with his debut album,  “Blue Slide Park.” Miller was born Malcolm McCormick in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to a Christian father and Jewish mother, according to Wikipedia. Miller was reportedly raised Jewish, became a Bar Mitzvah and is chatty about his Jewish identity during interviews. he Jewish relationship to self-expression is complicated, since, for much of history Jews were safer if...

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RELIGIOUS ART | TALK OF WEEK

AOA NEWS By Tahlib'FIRE IN MY BELLY" (above) by artist David Wojnarowicz is once again America's most talked about work of art dealing with religion. The 4-minute video which went on display this past Friday at the Brooklyn Museum has been condemned, again, by the Roman Catholic leadership, but are they right? We invite readers to watch the video, and to share your thoughts on whether the attacks are justified?Yes, justified. This...

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Video: "The Four Gospels" featuring Makoto Fujimura

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‘I’m a Mormon’ Advertising Campaign Seeks to Improve Image

THE NEW YORK TIMES By Laurie GoodsteinThe campaign, which uses the tagline “I'm a Mormon,” has recently been extended to 21 media markets, including Seattle, above.Top Mormon leaders had hired two big-name advertising agencies in 2009, Ogilvy & Mather and Hall & Partners, to find out what Americans think of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Using focus groups and surveys, they found that Americans who had any opinion at all...

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Benetton’s New Kissing Ads, includes Pope Kissing Imam

THE WASHINGTON POSTBy Maura JudkisControversial mocked up image courtesy of Daily MailFRANCE - Benetton returns to its controversial marketing roots with a new campaign that features photoshopped images of President Obama and other world leaders engaging in a kiss. In two separate ads, Obama is made to appear as if he is kissing Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez, and Chinese President Hu Jintao. The Unhate Foundation, founded by the Italian clothing...

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Unhate Campaign - The film by Benetton

BENETTON FRANCE - The official film of the Unhate worldwide communication campaign launched in Paris on November 16th and presented by Alessandro Benetton. unhatefoundation.o...

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Scientology Made a Hip-Hop Video

FLAVORPILLBy Judy BermanAccording to The Village Voice, the song was probably created by Scientologist rapper Chill EB, although you won’t see him in the clip. Lyrics include such stunners as “Psychotropic drugs we make a thing of the past/ Expose the fraud of the psychs and watch them dwindle real fast,” and while we won’t ruin the visuals for you, we will say that quite a bit more breakdancing happens at Scientology events than we would ever have guessed. [li...

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Catholic Church Buys the Crystal Cathedral in California for $57.5M

THE LOS ANGELES TIMESBy Nicole Santa Cruz, Ruben Vives and Mitchell LandsbergCrystal Cathedral designed by Phillip Johnson, Richard Neutra and Richard Meier. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times / November 14, 2011)CALIFORNIA - In the end, 2,000 years of tradition carried the day. An Orange County bankruptcy judge ruled Thursday that the Crystal Cathedral, a monument to modernism in faith and architecture, will be sold for $57.5 million to the Roman...

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"Seven Days of Creation" by Edgar G. Boevé (1958)

CALVIN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARYEdgar G. Boevé, 1958, encaustic on masonite, 12 ½" x 16 ½"Seventh Day of Creation: "Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all their multitude. And on the seventh day God finished the work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all the work that he had done. So God blessed the seventh day and hallowed it, because on it God rested from all the work that he had done in creation." Genesis 2:1-3...

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Museum Advertising Brings Art and Artists to Life

THE NEW YORK TIMESBy Andrew Adam NewmanA NEW commercial for the Detroit Institute of Arts opens with a woman responding to an off-camera interviewer, although the question is not revealed: “He had olive skin.” “He looked like a hippie.” “Yeah, he was Jewish.” “He was black like me.” The commercial, by Goodby, Silverstein & Partners, Detroit, part of the Omnicom Group, is for “Rembrandt and the Face of Jesus,” opening Sunday, an exhibit that features 64 works by the Dutch master and his students in the 1640s that depict Jesus and biblical events....

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The First Jewish Museum Opened During Nazi Era

ARTDAILY By Dr. Kai Artinger Jewish Museum, entrance hall, c. 1933. © New Synagogue Berlin - Centrum Judaicum.GERMANY - Perhaps only a few people in Berlin and elsewhere know that there was a Jewish museum in the German capital from 1933 to 1938. Astonishingly enough, the first Jewish museum worldwide was opened one month before the seizure of power by the National Socialists. Finally the museum was closed down on the 10 November 1938 and its collection...

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Hindu Temple Art is Part of Story in MET's Islamic Art Galleries

THE HINDUNEW YORK - The renovated ‘Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia' that were opened at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York this past month showcased the richness and grandeur of Islam's artistic and cultural heritage. India's presence was seen in a few galleries, including ‘Mughal South Asia (16th–19th centuries) Gallery' and ‘Later South Asia (16th–20th centuries) Gallery'. Works of art on display in this gallery are drawn mainly from the courts of Rajasthan, the Punjab hills and...

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Colorado Museum Exhibit Features Art by Tibetan Priests

THE COLORADOANBy Stacy NickTibetan Losel dolls are on dispay at the Global Village Museum in Fort Collins. / CAMERON REDWINE / THE COLORADOANCOLORADO - The Global Village Museum of Arts and Cultures' new exhibit on Tibet seeks to go above the highest region on Earth's social and political strife to celebrate its traditions and its beauty. "Tibet: Rooftop of the World" is a three-part show that honors both Tibet's past and present, as well as its...

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NYC Museum Galleries Refocus Gaze on Islamic Art

RUETERS By Ellen French Folio from the Blue Qur'an [Watch: Slideshow]NEW YORK - Fifteen renovated galleries offer fresh perspective on the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection of more than 12,000 Islamic works of art spanning 13 centuries and an area ranging from Spain to India. While the collection was once succinctly termed Islamic Art, the museum now describes the works inhabiting the galleries as "Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central...

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