RELIGIOUS ART | NEWS OF WEEK

ALPHA OMEGA ARTS
By Tahlib

“EN TOMBMENT” (Above) by Leivur Reinert Djurhuus, an art student at St. Norbert College in Wisconsin is the NEWS OF WEEK. With the help of his fellow art students, Djurhuus (b. Denmark) translated famed religious paintings by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio into a set of photographic motifs that made the news throughout Wisconisn, and resonated with A&O readers too.

INTERFAITH ART MIX-UP:

• What does Interfaith look like? Alpha Omega Arts and the Center for Interfaith Cooperation team-up to design art workshops for youth (Alpha Omega Arts)
• Jews & Muslims in Jerusalem united in keeping the art of calligraphy alive (The State)
• Holy-day Art of Week: The Cross of Scientology to mark the birthday of the religion's founder L.Ron Hubbard (Alpha Omega Arts)
• Cartoon depicts Atheism's renewed attempt to destroy the power of sacred texts, especially Christian sacred text (FanPop | Comparative Religions)
• Thomas Czarnecki's Fairy Tales all end with "Un-Happy" Endings (Huffington Post)
• Baptiste Debombourg "staples" religion & mythology together in Michelangelo-like murals (Huffington Post)

BUDDHIST ART:

• Former Missouri prisoners stage, "The Buddha" for the Pulitzer Foundation (Saint Louis American)
• Performance artist Hirokazu Kosaka goes from a Buddhist monastery in Japan to becoming an art legend in LA (KCET) 

HINDU ART:

• Bharti Kher's art inspired by an ancient Hinduism's "Third Eye", opens at the Hauser & Wirth Gallery in NYC (Wall Street Journal)

ISLAMIC ART:

• Major Islamic Art show begins its run in Utah, and heads next to Indiana (Salt Lake Tribune)
• Muhammad Azeem Iqbal's calligraphy show at the Louvre Gallery in Pakistan captures essence of Islamic art (Daily Times | Pakistan)
• Art Review: Metropolitan Museum of Arts new Byzantine art blockbuster is Islamic (New York Times) 

JEWISH ART:

• Jewish Art Salon of NYC's "The Dura Europos Project: An Ancient Site Interpreted Through 21st Century Eyes" (Alpha Omega Arts)
• Israeli Art market on the rise (Mutual Art)
• Priceless Jewish artifact: Rylands Haggadah, leaves England to be on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on March 27 (Alpha Omega Arts)
• Archie Granot's contemporary papercut Haggadah on display at the Museum of Contemporary Religious Art in Saint Louis (Alpha Omega Arts) 

CHRISTIAN ART:

• Photo project inspired by religious paintings of Caravaggio (Greenbay Post Gazette)
• Makeup artist in Ohio creates home for religious statues abandoned by the Catholic church (New York Times)
• Marcus Brown's funky style is toned down to creates somber religious sculptures for Louisiana church (Times Picayune)
• A&O marks the first 21 Holy-days of "LENT" with Art (Alpha Omega Arts)
• FOX is angry about ABC's new hit TV show on Christian women (Alpha Omega Arts)
• New Jersey's Ron English art blends Consumerism & Religion as the desire to dominate (Huffington Post)
• Soul singer Rihanna joins the Jesus tattoo craze and gets her own "tiny" cross tattoo (Perez Hilton)
• Lutheran argues that there are only two ways of finding God in the Movies (Lutheran Outlander)
• A Visual Apologetic: Can God reveal himself through visual art? (Ruminate Magazine)
• Life Journey: King Hezekiah's life reminds us to let-go, and let God (Alpha Omega Arts)

WANT MORE? Get your daily dose of Alpha Omega Arts on Facebook and/or Twitter, or just come back each day. Whether it's Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Islamic, Judaic or other, there's always something new to talk about in today's interfaith world of religious arts. Each week, we also invite you to join a dialogue about your A&O MOVIE NITE experience; and at least five times a year, A&O sponsors an A&O JOURNEY to a city around the USA to see a major new religious art exhibit, so let's Meetup!