Yesterday morning saw the removal of David Wojnarowicz’s 1987 video A Fire in My Belly from the National Portrait Gallery’s “Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture” exhibition. This video (which can be viewed here) was deemed controversial for an eleven second clip of ants crawling across a small crucifix.
Posts Tagged ‘art’
October 25th, 2010
Review of “Three Faiths” exhibition at NYPL
posted by Charles GelmanEdward Rothstein, of The New York Times, reviews “Three Faiths: Judaism, Christianity, Islam,” a new exhibit at the New York Public Library.
August 3rd, 2010
“The Animated Avadhuta”
posted by Amanda KaplanTrent Gilliss, senior editor of Speaking of Faith, shares the thought-provoking and beautifully drawn short “The Animated Avadhuta.”
July 19th, 2010
Tradition Transformed: Tibetan Artists Respond
posted by Charles GelmanThe Rubin Museum of Art in New York City is currently exhibiting the work of nine contemporary Tibetan artists who incisively and imaginatively reinterpret the highly formalized tradition of Tibetan Buddhist art.
July 14th, 2010
Holocaust survivor dances, controversy ensues
posted by Amanda Kaplan“Dancing Auschwitz” has reappeared on the internet not a year after its release in December of 2009, catching the attention of The Atlantic and New York Magazine for starters. Unfortunately, it “has resurfaced at the center of a trans-Atlantic controversy,” Haaretz reports.
June 17th, 2010
Redeeming the Burning Man
posted by Amanda KaplanIn her newly published book Theater in a Crowded Fire, Lee Gilmore tells the story of the infamous Burning Man Festival, reclaiming its reputation as a specifically spiritual event. Religion Dispatches interviews Gilmore.
June 8th, 2010
The artist and presence
posted by Lydia BrawnerMuch ink, real and digital, has been spent on the closing of the Marina Abramović retrospective The Artist is Present. “But,” writes Alisa Solomon in a thoughtful piece at Killing the Buddha, “for all the ecstatic attention—and cranky critiques, too—trained on the art world’s equivalent of an audience with the pope, an important aspect of the performance has been overlooked: the deep aesthetic, communal, even spiritual (and sometimes contentious) experiences of hundreds of people who waited all day along the perimeter of the square performance space in vain hopes of taking a turn in the chair.”
May 26th, 2010
Get Mad at Sin!
posted by Lydia BrawnerThis Thursday, Get Mad at Sin! opens at The Chocolate Factory in Long Island City. Conceived and performed by Andrew Dinwiddie and directed by Jeff Larson, Get Mad At Sin! is based on a 1971 record of evangelist Jimmy Swaggart recorded at the First Assembly of God in Van Buren, Arkansas. It is both historical document and portrait of Swaggart in his element before his televised rise to fame.
March 16th, 2010
The Little Death
posted by Lydia BrawnerThis Friday, musician Matt Marks’s “post-Christian nihilist pop opera” The Little Death will be staged at Galapagos Art Space in Brooklyn.
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