WALL STREET JOURNALBy Sameer ReddyNEW YORK - Building an art collection often requires cultivating relationships with a global network of dealers, but now, a steadily growing genre of online ventures is seeking to streamline the process for both beginners and established collectors, facilitating keyboard-click access to fine art. [High End] With high-profile investors and advisers—Art.sy aims to become a Pandora for fine art; The art-marketing site Paddle8, provides guest-curated "virtual exhibitions" accompanied by dossiers on participating...
Wednesday, 14 December 2011
Tuesday, 13 December 2011
USA TODAY SWEDEN - Scientists hunting for an elusive sub-atomic particle say they've found "intriguing hints" that it exists, narrowing down the search for what is believed to be a basic building block of the universe. The Higgs boson — popularly referred to as the "God particle" — is more likely to be found in the lower mass or energy ranges of the massive atom smasher being used to track it down, physicists from two independent research teams said Tuesday. [link]...
THE NEW YORKER NEW YORK - Sotheby’s mounts a sale of Judaica on Dec. 14, which includes such highly prized items as a lush Isidor Kaufmann painting of a young woman gazing mournfully at the viewer (“The Newlywed”) and a set of eighteenth-century German Torah finials. A sale of Israeli art the same day features a series of three oil paintings by Marc Chagall depicting synagogue interiors (an atypical subject for the artist) in Jerusalem, Vilna, and Safed. (York Ave. at 72nd St. 212-606-7000.) [li...
THE GUARDIAN By Jonathon Jones"The Crowning of Thorns" Courtesy of owner Kunsthistorisches MuseumI've waited a long time for a decent book on Caravaggio to come along. Unable to translate the shock of his images into prose, authors either sensationalise his life story in ways so crass as to be irrelevant, or retreat into reconstructions of his networks of patronage that are so dull they make you wonder why you ever felt seduced by his art in...
Monday, 12 December 2011
USA TODAYBy Douglas StanglinAFP/Getty Images by Kim Jae-MyungKOREA - Despite warnings from Pyongyang, South Korea says it will light three giant Christmas trees along the North Korean border. North Korea has warned South Korea of "unexpected consequences" if it goes thrugh with its plans, the BBC reports. Pyongyang has accused Seoul of using the trees to spread the Christian message to people inside Noth Korea. A government official said Seoul will...
THE HINDU INDIA - More than 70 painters of international and national repute and several sculptors are participating in the 25-day International Sculpture and Painting Symposium being held at the Sri Guru Vidya Peeta Education Institute complex at Kanadal village on the outskirts of the city. Six painters and six sculptors from different countries such as France, Germany, Moldove, South Africa, Italy, Serbia, and Dubai were taking part in the symposium that aimed at promoting art and culture and generate interest among the youth about fine arts....
NEWS STRAITS TIMESBy Luchien de GuiseIllustrated manuscript from Anwar-i Suhayli,Iran, 1593MALAYSIA - Links between Malaysia and Russia have always been limited, an exhibition starting next month in St Petersburg will be travelling to Malaysia next year. Architecture and its Representations in Islamic Art at the State Hermitage Museum ends February 2012. Architecture is one of the greatest accomplishments of the Islamic world. Architecture was one...
SALEM NEWSBy Alan Burke“Salem Rose at Dawn” by Kathleen Ward Atchason is a 4-foot-by-5-foot depiction of Salem Harbor at dawn. It was displayed at her wake.MASSACHUSETTS - The '60s have been romanticized as an era of giddy excess, when young people ignored the nagging warnings of joyless adults and embraced a world of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll. For several reasons, artist Kathleen Ward was susceptible to the message. Early in life, she was led...
ARTDAILYDish with Design of Dandelions, Nabeshima ware. Edo period, 18th century. Glazed porcelain with overglaze enamels. Tokyo National Museum.TEXAS - The new, permanent Arts of Japan Gallery at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, will open to the public on Sunday, February 19. The Japan gallery will be the final installation in a suite of permanent Arts of Asia galleries surrounding Cullinan Hall in the Caroline Wiess Law Building, culminating an...
THE DAILY BEAST | NEWSWEEKBy Blake GropnikFor Bugs, Scrooge, and Lara Croft, Tibet is a place of great mountains and great adventures., Courtesy of the Rubin Museum of Art, New YorkNEW YORK - Already at 5, I had plugged into the powerful myth of Tibet that Westerners have created. An exhibition at New York’s Rubin Museum follows our comic heroes and villains to the top of the world. Hero, Villain, Yeti: Tibet in Comics, an exhibition now at the lovely...
Sunday, 11 December 2011
AOA NEWS By TAHLIBThe "NATIVITY SCENE" (above) is on view at a Texas courthouse, and Atheist extremists are angry about it, again. At Alpha Omega Arts, we are grateful to these extremists for the "annual" news controversy, because it gets Americans excited about defending Art & Faith. The first ever Nativity scene was created in the year 1223 by St. Francis of Assisi in response to his trip to the Holy Land. Each features at minimum the baby...
Saturday, 10 December 2011
BETHEL COLLEGE NEWSBy Melanie ZuercherKANSAS – Bethel College's first major symposium in a decade, “Think, Celebrate, Sing: Worship and the Arts,” brought to campus two nationally known resource people in the areas of church music and preaching: John Ferguson from St. Olaf College and Thomas Long from Emory University.“Music is an art form that unfolds over time,” Ferguson said. “No matter how creative the structure, the final question is: ‘Does it work?’” The visual arts were also part of the symposium, through the cut-paper banners created by...
Friday, 9 December 2011
BALTIMORE SUNBy Larry PerlNEW JERSEY - Yaakov Bar Am is a busy man. The 48-year-old Verizon analyst is also a well-known woodworker, a custom furniture maker and owner of two online businesses. He's also an Orthodox Jew and the father of four girls and a 4-month-old son. But, the Pikesville area resident has recently taken on a new challenge, which could be his biggest yet. With the help of a Mount Washington woman, he has started the Maryland Artisan Guild, which represents artists by showcasing their work at art shows, posting samples of their...
Thursday, 8 December 2011
THE BLAZE By Billy Hallowell TEXAS - Christian pastors in Henderson County, Texas, are fighting back against atheists who are demanding that a nativity scene located on a courthouse lawn be taken down. The group behind the complains, the Wisconsin-based Freedom From Religion Foundation, frequently targets faith and religion projects that are placed on public lands. The group sent a letter to the county that explains how a local resident, who wishes to remain nameless, is offended by the scene. [li...
AOA NEWSFrom LIT video by Gerda LiebmannNEW JERSEY - Looking for a non-traditional visual arts experience to celebrate this season of Advent? Then go get "LIT" by artist Gerda Liebmann whose exhibition of light paintings explores questions of uncertainty and discovery, and will be on view this month through December 31 at the Oyster Point Hotel, a boutique hotel in Redbank, NJ. Liebmann, a Christian artist creates her light paintings by moving...
THE JEWISH WEEK By Diane ColeMenorah from the Cervera Bible NEW YORK - The Jewish holiday of Chanukah lasts eight days, but New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art is celebrating over the course of eight weeks, in the form of its recently opened exhibition “Lisbon’s Hebrew Bible: Medieval Jewish Art in Context,” on display through Jan. 16. And the contexts are plural, not singular. Produced in Cervera, Spain between 1299 and 1300, the “Cervera Bible”...
Wednesday, 7 December 2011
THE HINDU By Harshini Vakkalanka"Budha" (Mixed Media on Paper)INDIA - As the world grows smaller, everybody experiences a conflict of identity and questions it, says artist Anurendra Jegadeva. It's literally an ABCD scenario at Anurendra Jegadeva's exhibition “Strange Paradise: Memories of Empire, The Gods & Mulligatawny Soup." He has even done a whole series of A-Z paintings depicting terms related to his identity, like A for ancestors, B for...
ABC NEWS UNITED KINGDOM - When you sing about Jesus getting drunk and passing out, you’re going to outrage a few people. Or a lot, if you’re Johnny Depp. Depp and the band Babybird released a controversial new song in time for Christmas: “Jesus Stag Night Club” (Listen below). Focus on the Family condemned the song to the U.K. paper The Daily Star; the Christian Coalition said Depp and his band mates “will burn in hell for this filth.” Neither group...
AHRAM ONLINEBy Wael Eskandar with contributions by Menna Taher and Ati MetwalyEGYPT - During the Mubarak era Egyptian courts were flooded with 'Hesba' lawsuits targeting writers, film makers and poets. Hesba lawsuits can be filed by anyone if they believe God has been insulted. The first case after the 25 January Revolution was filed on 12 April 2011 against the book “Where is Allah” by Karam Saber, released in November 2010. The book was sent to the committee of senior scholars at Al-Azhar Al-Sharif for content assessment. Hesba lawsuits have...
Tuesday, 6 December 2011
SAN DIEGO 10 NEWSCALIFORNIA - A recommendation for a new location for the "Surfing Madonna" mosaic was unanimously passed by the Encinitas Commission for the Arts on Monday. The recommendation says that the "Surfing Madonna" should be erected in a small park on Encinitas Boulevard west of Coast Highway near Moonlight Beach. The park is also where artist Mark Patterson would like to see his "Surfing Madonna" come to rest. Patterson envisions the park – with its one bench and path that cuts through the rough landscaping – as the perfect setting for...
CATHOLIC NEWS AGENCYVATICAN CITY - An exhibition exploring the art, science and spirituality of Barcelona’s La Sagrada Familia Basilica is proving to be a popular winter attraction for visitors to the Vatican. The Basilica of La Sagrada Familia—which is Catalan for “The Holy Family”—is the creation of the Catalonian architect Antoni Gaudi (1852-1926). His innovative blend of Gothic and Art Nouveau styling that comes to life in the basilica is regarded as one of the modern architectural wonders of the world. Still under construction, the church...
AL ARABIYA NEWSBy Farrag IsmailEGYPT - Instead of celebrating the first successful round of parliamentary elections, Egyptian intellectuals began sounding alarms after the remarkable victory of Islamist parties. Two of the alarms now gaining ground are the most dangerous: the immigration of artists to Lebanon and Dubai and the immigration of Copts [Coptic-Christians], especially businessmen. The first alarm was voiced in statements issued by several artists, some of whom decided to resist, such as director Khaled Youssef, and some made up their...
TIMES OF INDIABy Alexandre Moniz BarbosaINDIA - In his lifetime, he was criticized by the clergy for painting Christian themes in Indian settings. In the 1930s he had to leave his homeland, and find refuge and recognition in British India. In 2011, his works of art are getting their just rewards in the land of his birth. Born in St Estevam, Angelo da Fonseca left the then Portuguese colony for further studies but returned with his brush to depict...
IOL NEWSBy Gugu Mbonambi "Kalifornia" by Harry Fokker and Trevor PaulSOUTH AFRICA - A DA councillor in eThekwini has lodged a complaint with the country’s religious and cultural watchdog body over satirical T-shirts made by two clothing designers: Michan Marais and Harry Fokker, which mock Hindu deities. According to The Sunday Times Extra, Marais’s design had won second place in the annual Makhulu Polane T-shirt competition. It features...
ELEVEN NEWSUTAH - Bringham Young University’s Museum of Art announced Wednesday morning its upcoming exhibition of Islamic art. The exhibit will feature more than 250 pieces of art from more than 10 different countries and in February BYU will be this exhibit’s first stop on its tour throughout the country. “Beauty is a universal concept. A unifying force and a source for hope for a better future,” said BYU College of Fine Arts and Humanities Dean Stephen Jones. The MOA is known for being the premier art museum in the Mountain West and the most...
Monday, 5 December 2011
KITSAP SUN By Chris Henry Dorothy Bach, who runs the Judaica gift shop at Congregation Kol Shalom, sits beside a display of Hanukkah candles and a contemporary menorah. Chris Henry/Kitsap Sun WASHINGTON - When Dorothy Bach [of Bainbridge Island] was in Israel three years ago looking down on the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem, she started crying. Such is the importance of history in Judaism, a history kept alive through symbols...
COURIER LIFE'S | BROOKLYN DAILYBy Shaavana Abruzzo"Stop Islam. Islam has to stop killing people by stoning." by Ahmed Mashhouri (2009)NEW YORK - Art wouldn’t be art if it wasn’t contentious, but to truly shock and awe, it must also be new and revolutionary. The Brooklyn Museum’s latest “Christ” exhibit, depicting an ant-encrusted Jesus as part of a collection of gay identity portraiture, is neither provocative nor rebellious — nor new — even though...
LOS ANGELES TIMESBy Chris KnightCALIFORNIA - At the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, a large and engrossing new show includes four big canvases painted in 1783 by Vicente Albán. Just a few of the 181 rarely traveled works assembled for "Contested Visions in the Spanish Colonial World," Albán's paintings overflow with arresting super-abundance. The magnificent show, organized by LACMA curator Ilona Katzew, is the first in the U.S. to chart the...
SAN DIEGO COUNTY NEWSBy Welton JonesJesus Christ SuperstarCALIFORNIA - Any doubts that JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR is a genuine modern musical masterpiece should be banished forever by the splendid production in residence at the La Jolla Playhouse through December. Furthermore, though I will never be known as a devout religionist, I can’t imagine a more moving, more spiritual delivery of Christianity’s core story than this. Created by LJP legend Des McAnuff...
GUARDIAN ANGELSBy Aprille HansonArtist Louis Beck describes the most expensive piece in his art gallery, a 5-foot-by-4-foot, 150-pound wood carving of the Last Supper, priced at $30,000. He worked on the carving periodically for a little more than 20 years. ARKANSAS - Artist Louis Beck describes the most expensive piece in his art gallery, a 5-foot-by-4-foot, 150-pound wood carving of the Last Supper, priced at $30,000. He worked on the carving periodically...
DIGITAL NEWS ASSOCIATESBy Amy ZimmerA Hanukkah lamp from Landsberg am Lech, Germany, 1945. The menorah was made in a displaced-persons camp at the end of World War II and dedicated to U.S. Gen. Joseph McNarney, hailed as their liberator.NEW YORK - Maurice Sendak, author of the beloved children's classic, "Where the Wild Things Are," sifted through the Jewish Museum's foremost collection of more than 1,000 menorahs for a new holiday exhibition at...
Sunday, 4 December 2011
AOA NEWS By Tahlib"GANESHA" (above) is by Teresa Mas, and Mas is this month's Inspire Me! Artist. Mas is a practicing Hindu and a painter who lives in Florida. Her technique is dreamlike and seductive. The portraits of Hindu gods are fashioned from applications of acrylic paint and collage into celebrations of the internal journey we all seek as Believers. Find our more about this month's Creator Spirit...
Saturday, 3 December 2011
WTHR | CHANNEL 13INDIANA - After nearly 120 years of selling religious supplies downtown, Krieg Brothers is going out of business. The company will close its supply house on South Meridian Street Saturday. Family members say the slow economy and no online sales presence took a toll on the economy. The store was first opened in 1892 by a pair of Indianapolis brothers and has sold religious supplies and gifts for local clergy and generations of Catholic families. Customers flocked to the store Friday to make last minute purchases before the doors...
THINK PROGRESS By Alyssa Rosenberg It’s really impossible to say enough good things about the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s revitalized and reopened Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia and Later South Asia, an astonishingly rich journey through the centuries and a cornucopia of artistic influences and achievements. The galleries are a reminder that constraints can be a help, rather than a hindrance, in the production of astonishing art. It’s unfortunate that so much of the contemporary discussion around Islam and...
THE CINCINNATI ENQUIRERBy Jackie Demailine"Either/Or Arch 3.1" by Eric Standley, Cut Paper, 24h x 18w x 2d framedOHIO - The Marta Hewett Gallery marks the end of 2011 by expanding beyond glass artists. Devotion to Detail features works by Lyndsey Fryman, Raymond Papka and Eric Standley. Working in paper, ceramics and encaustic with found objects, each artist displays a commitment to deliberate decision-making within the creation of their works....
WINK NEWS NOWFLORIDA - Perhaps no other art form requires as much concentration as the ancient ritual being performed in Naples. Six Tibetan Buddhist Monks are building a Sand Mandala at Unity of Naples. The art piece is made only one grain of colored sand at a time. "This is meditation, single point concentration," said Chophel, one of the traveling monks from the Gaden Shartse Monastery, "you really need to be focused on every detail." The ancient ceremony dates back more than a thousand years. The ritual offers several lessons, from being able...
THE JEWISH CHRONICLEBy Toby Tabachnick"Waterfall Ketuba" by Sharon Jo SerbinPENNSYLVANIA - Sharon Jo Serbin is a wood carver, sculptor, mosaic artist and muralist. She wrote a children’s book, entertains at birthday parties, models in the nude for art classes, is a trained masseuse, and teaches Pilates and drama. She teaches babies how to communicate by signing, and she just happens to be deaf. “I consider myself a creative specialist,” Serbin said...
ECONOMIC TIMESINDIA - Even as Indian art is gradually beginning to be recognised globally and local artists are seen at art fairs across the world, focused efforts like building more museums, imparting art education in schools and producing good art books is the need of the hour, say experts. "Art from India is represented in art fairs in Dubai Brazil, Shangai etc but it is still a drop in the ocean. We need to do much more to be at par internationally," says Sushma Bahl, an independent arts adviser, writer, and curator of cultural projects. Bahl...
Friday, 2 December 2011
LOS ANGELES TIMESBy Reed JohnsonCALIFORNIA - Des McAnuff's Broadway-bound revival of the musical stresses the relationship between Jesus, Judas and Mary Magdalene. Take away the miracles, the bluesy guitar licks and all those antsy apostles, and what's "Jesus Christ Superstar" really about? Des McAnuff thinks he has the answer. It's a love triangle among Jesus, Judas and Mary Magdalene, said the U.S.-Canadian director of the critically heralded,...
THE TORONTO SUNAri Rabinovitch, ReutersVisitors look at paintings by German artist Anselm Kiefer in a section of a new wing. (Reuters/ Nir Elias) ISRAEL - The new wing, designed by Massachusetts architect Preston Scott Cohen, has doubled the size of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art by 19,000 square metres (200,000 square feet) and lured a growing number of art fans through its new, triangular concrete and glass complex since its November 3 unveiling. Many...
TRUMAN INDEX By John O'BrienMISSOURI- Not a word was spoken by the actors during the 45-minute production of "Parabole" and, for the most part, not a word was needed as the symbolism and actions said everything. Sponsored by the Independent Performance and Art Coalition, "Parabole" is an independent production directed, written and designed by sophomore Megan Pattee. This Christian production depicts various biblical scenes, beginning with the story of the creation of heaven and Earth, making its way through the life and death of Jesus. Pattee's...
INTERNATIONAL ANALYST NETWORK By Mark Silverberg With all the talk of revolutions, the Middle East continues to slip backwards. If Sharia is to become the supreme adjudicator of future legislation across the Arab world, it can also be assumed that Islamic law will validate the ethnic cleansing of Jews, mandatory donning of the veil for women, the execution of homosexuals, prostitutes and apostates (those who convert away from Islam), bans on music, dancing, men and women mixing in public (the effect of which will suffocate philosophy, art and research),...
KUENSE ONLINE | BHUTAN DAILY NEWSBy Samten YeshiCurrent day Dratsang Monastery. Courtesy of AllPosters.comRUSSIA - An exhibition on Buddhism in Russia that opened yesterday at the Nehru-Wangchuck cultural centre in the capital marked the beginning of Bhutan-Russia relations. The exhibits are high quality technological reproductions of the 19th century Buddhist art works of Russia. Arts from the collection of Nicholas II, the last emperor of Russia,...
EXPRESS TRIBUNEBy Mavra BariView "Slide Show of Exhibit"PAKISTAN - Calligraphy, historically used for the means of preservation of Quranic text, is one of the most revered forms of Islamic art. Practiced in Pakistan for years, artistic geniuses like Sadequain brought the art form into the mainstream. Recently, a week-long calligraphy exhibition was held at the Rawalpindi Arts Council from November 28 to December 5, 2011, to mark the commencement...
FRONTLINEBy Benoy K. Behl Two Kalmyks posing in front of the image of an acharya from Nalanda. AFGHANISTAN - The way Indian philosophy spread across the continent of Asia in ancient times is amazing. There was a time when there was no country in South and South-East Asia, East Asia and Central Asia where Indic deities, the Buddha, Siva, Vishnu and others, were not revered. Much of this history has been forgotten. A great new Buddhist temple called...
Thursday, 1 December 2011
AOA NEWS By Ernest O. Britton"Something Great is Coming" by Ryan PetrowINDIANA - This past Sunday was Advent Sunday, a holyday marking a period of great anticipation for the birth of Jesus Christ on December 25. It also marks the start of the liturgical season for Roman Catholic, Lutheran, Anglican, and Methodist churches who wear violet-coloured or blue vestments on this first day, and the first violet or blue Advent candle...
"I trust my God within, to guide me, talk to me, remind me and teach me."~ TERESA MASKrishna and ParvatiBy Ernest Disney-BrittonTeresa Mas is a true American Creator Spirit. Her works are inward journeys of self-discovery filled with the unexpected at every corner. With a highly developed technique, she creates acrylic paintings often mixed with collages of surprises--imagery and details of surprises! A world traveler and follower...
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