RELIGIOUS ART | TALK OF WEEK



AOA WEEKLY PICK:

 "Leviathon," by Anish Kapoor's gigantic Jonah's whale in Paris (above), and other religious and spiritual arts news stories of the past week are listed below. The stories are grouped into five faith categories: Buddhist; Jewish; Islamic; Christian; and Other.

BUDDHIST-HINDU:

• Asia News Channel Features Intra-Religious Art Stories (AOA Today)
• Registration for Amarnath Yatra begins in India (Daily News Analyst)
• India's Government Revives Tribal Art in Rayagada (Daily India)
• Religious Art of China's NAXI Minority Opens at Rubin Museum of Art (AOA Today)

JEWISH:

• Touring the Eldridge Street Synagogue and Museum (AOA Today) 
• Spencer Tunick's Dead Sea Dream (ABC)

ISLAMIC:

• Religious Festival: Hazrat Bibi Pak Damon urs Begins Today (Express Tribune)
• "Spiritual Reflections" Art Exhibition in Kuwait (Arab Times)

CHRISTIAN:

• "PASSAGES" begins tomorrow in Oklahoma (Alpha Omega Arts)
• Jean Crotti: ‘Inhabiting Abstraction (The New York Times)
• Renowned Methodist Art Collection Comes to Edinburgh (The Scotsman)
• Surfing Madonna Draws Criticism over Religion Concerns (10 News)
• Three Tintoretto's in Venice Biennale (The Guardian)
• Who Are the Coptic Christians? Look at their Art. (The Guardian)
• Art Review: John Taylor Arms at National Gallery (The Washington Post)
• John Taylor Arms at Virginia's Chrysler Museum of Art (AOA Today)
• Lecture on Replica of "La Pieta" on Friday in New Jersey (AOA Today)
• West Virginia Church Mural Brings Bible Alive (The Record Delta)
• Alpha to Omega: British Artist's Bible Painting Project (BBC News)

OTHER/INTERFAITH:

• Kapoor Crafts Jonah's Monumental Whale (The Independent)
• Graffiti: The Sacred Art of Brazil (The Star)
• Native American Zunis’ Shrine in the Sky, a Refuge (El Defenso Chieftain)
• Nick & Rosie, Founders of Minneapolis 11th Annual Spiritual Art Show (The Journal)
• "Native Skates" at the Museum of Native American Indiana (Kianga Ellis)

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Spencer Tunick's Naked Dead Sea Dream

ABC NEWS

A couple walk as participants gather at Vienna's Ernst Happel stadium, Austria,
for one of Spencer Tunick's nude installations on 11 May 2008. EPA/HERBERT PFARRHOFER.

ISREAL - Naked crowds in public places have made American photographer Spencer Tunick world famous, but his plan for an installation featuring hundreds of nude Israelis floating in the Dead Sea has hit money problems. His photographs of hundreds of naked men and women of "all religions, shapes and sizes" in locations such as the Sydney Opera House and Switzerland's Aletsch Glacier have won critical acclaim and attracted fans worldwide. Tunick and his eight assistants need $US60,000 ($56,000) to pay the logistics costs of an installation and photo shoot in September or October at the lowest point on Earth, where the Dead Sea is drying up at the rate of one metre a year. With 25 days to go to their deadline, the team are calling for donations on Tunick's kickstarter.com site.[link]

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