[lit-ideas] Checking out the Mohammeds Today
- From: Eric <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 13:31:35 -0500
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 — "Without Boundary: Seventeen Ways of
Looking" — 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 —
in some cases it is close and positive; in other
cases, distant and critical. But in most
instances, it is ambivalent — the opposite of how
Islam is treated these days in the larger world.
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