RELIGIOUS ART | NEWS OF WEEK

ALPHA OMEGA ARTS
By Gregory Disney-Britton

During a week of raging debate over free speech, The New Yorker released a new magazine cover about "reconciliation" by Barry Blitt. The Canadian is a cartoonist and illustrator who has contributed more than eighty covers to the magazine. While others debated religious radicalism abroad, we watched the movie "Selma" where religious restraint won out over religious radicalism at home. Because in the end "love" wins, that makes "Reconciliation" (above) by Barry Blitt my NEWS OF WEEK.

In other religious art news from across the USA, and around the world:

• Buddhist Art of Week: When the Buddha was not represented in human form [More News]
• Christian Art of Week: Barry Blitt draws reconciliation for The New Yorker [More News]
• Hindu Art of Week: Kamal Kamaraju's "Rani" honors sacred "selflessness" [More News]
• Islamic Art of Week: Secret Islamic devotional art that does depict the Prophet [More News]
• Judaic Art of Week: "Asher Lev" in Texas is a moving reflection on Art & Faith [More News]

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