I have been sick with a tedious mono for a while. Sickness confined me in the house most of the day. Except for venturing out a few hours to teach, I did not do much in the last month. I did not feel inspired to write either, call it lack of stimuli. Today I put [...]
Posts Tagged ‘art’
Art explodes in Herzelya (and Tel Aviv)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Amorales, art, contemporary, exhibition, explosion, field, flowers, Herzelya, installation, Museum, Tel Aviv, Zadok Ben-David on 01/05/2010 | Leave a Comment »
Stairway to Heaven
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged ARCO, art, Bible, Catholic, Catholic Church, controversial, Eugenio Merino, Islam, Jew, Monotheism, Muslim, prayer, Religion and Spirituality, sculpture, Spain, Stairway to heaven, Torah on 25/02/2010 | 47 Comments »
A friend in Spain called my attention to an interesting sculpture which has raised quite a bit of polemics. The sculpture, by Spanish artist Eugenio Merino (Madrid, 1975), represents a Muslim worshipper, a Catholic priest and a Rabbi. The three of them are immortalized in the act of praying, each one in his own fashion: [...]
