THE DIRECTOR'S DESK
The Alpha & Omega Project for Contemporary Religious Arts hosted our first of two-annual trips to NYC this weekend featuring three major themes of religious art: Jewish, Catholic, and Naxi (akin to Buddhism). It was one of the best trips ever! We also reached our 100th "Like" on Facebook. Have you done it yet?
In NYC, we began by exploring the city's Jewish Orthodox tradition at the Eldridge Street Synagogue Museum in Lower East Side (built 1887). This trip also featured the Museum of Biblical Art's "Passion in Venice" exhibition, a truly Catholic experience which deserves all the praise it has earned in the news media. We also stopped by Ai Weiwei's gigantic "Zodiac Sculptures" near the Plaza Hotel; but the highlight of the trip was the opening night reception at the Rubin Museum of Art for "Quentin Roosevelt's China," an exhibition of Naxi religious art.
Yours in Art,
ERNEST BRITTON
Sunday, 15 May 2011
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