You know, if some group of Hindus decide to murder a fair sized group of Americans on our own soil, Americans are going to get very educated about Hinduism fast. Maybe in the long run it's a good thing. Julie Krueger particularly cynical today ========Original Message======== Subj: [lit-ideas] Checking out the Mohammeds Today Date: 2/26/06 12:31:21 P.M. Central Standard Time From: _eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (mailto:eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) To: _lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (mailto:lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) Sent on: Walking over to the Met Museum today (that once snowcapped building in the blog photo) to see this exhibition and look at some Mohammeds the Prophets. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/26/arts/design/26cott.html?th&emc=th By far the most prominent exhibition of contemporary art on the subject yet seen in New York opens today at the Museum of Modern Art. You would never guess that subject, though, from its title â "Without Boundary: Seventeen Ways of Looking" â in which the word Islam does not appear. <snip> In these works, images and forms associated with Islam, far from being sacrosanct, are invitations to individualistic and unorthodox experimentation, to examine and play with Islamic identity without being confined to it. <snip> Most of these artists are tagged Islamic because of their backgrounds. Yet much of their work is far less about Islam itself, as a religion or culture, than about their relationship to Islam â in some cases it is close and positive; in other cases, distant and critical. But in most instances, it is ambivalent â the opposite of how Islam is treated these days in the larger world. ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html