Tuesday, December 7, 2004

Anno Domini As I roam the web in preparation for my Arts and Culture class at Abilene Christian, I come across some pretty great stuff. Anno Domini is a virtual art exhibition put together a couple of years ago by the Virtual Museum of Canada. It traces thinking about Jesus through the past two thousand years in a beautifully prepared exhibition. Concise, insightful, beautiful images. Worth a visit... 6:29:57 PM    comment []

Slow Art In an age when Christians are talking about engaging the arts, especially the postmoderrn pop cultural forms, this word from Robert Hughes (art critic author of The Shock of the New, Culture of Complaint, and others) is worth chewing on as counterpoint. I found it in the November-December issue of The Dramatist, quoting Hughes from The Guardian. "We have had a gutful of fast art and fast food. What we need more of is slow art: art that holds time as a vase holds water; art that grows out of modes of perception and whose skill and doggedness make you think and feel; art that isn't merely sensational, that doesn't get its message across in 10 seconds, that isn't falsely iconic, that hooks onto something deep-running in our natures. In a word, art that is the very opposite of mass media." -- Robert Hughes 7:29:37 AM    comment []

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