Arts - period ended 5.1.2006

Arts/Turrel, James///Sit here and you can touch the sky/Leeds Today/Leeds/England/UK/19-Apr-06/... stars. Turrell was born to Quaker parents in 1943. His passion for flying became apparent in the 1960s and he became an avid pilot. ...

Arts/Theater/Foster, Abbey Kelley//Actress brings abolitionist Abby Kelley Foster to life/Worcester Telegram/Worcester/MA/USA/23-Apr-06/... gave a well-received one-woman performance as Ms. Foster at the senior citizen’s center Friday afternoon, said that while Ms. Foster — a Quaker who gave ...

Arts/Politics and Economics/Zaloom, Paul//For Political Puppets, A Humorist Manifesto/Washington Post/Washington/DC/USA/15-Apr-06/... Zaloom's Karagoz is endowed with his creator's outsider identities: Both are of Syrian descent, pacifist Quaker wiseacres with artistic tendencies, and trouble ...

Arts/Painting/Turrell, James//Just a little bit of heaven/The Sunday Times/London/England/UK/23-Apr-06/... He famously had a Quaker upbringing, and explains much of his work in terms of his grandmother’s injunction to “go inside and greet the light”, but this ...

Arts/Painting/Penrose, Roland//Visiting Picasso, ed Elizabeth Cowley/Independent/London/England/UK/29-Apr-06/... Roland Penrose and his photographer wife, Lee Miller, enjoyed a long friendship with the mercurial Pablo Picasso. With the publication of Penrose's notebooks and letters, Tom Rosenthal finds out that it came at a high price…..price. Roland Penrose, of distinguished Quaker stock, was a decent second division Surrealist painter in the 1930s and 1940s. He ...

Arts/Painting/Animal Welfare/Hicks, Edward/Paintings, meet San Pedro's at risk pets/Daily Breeze/Los Angeles/CA/USA/25-Apr-06/... and other shelters into four classic paintings already populated with animals: "The Peaceable Kingdom" and "Noah's Ark," both by Hicks, a Quaker preacher who ...

Arts/Literature/Whittier, John Greenleaf/City establishing its literary legacy/Newburyport Daily News/Newburyport/MA/USA/28-Apr-06/... John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892): Haverhill-born Quaker poet, reformer and crusader for humanitarian causes who is best remembered for "Snow-bound

Arts/Film/Religoius Faith/Light/Christians are in for a bumpy ride/Deseret News/Salt Lake City/UT/USA/27-Apr-06/…For the most part, I agree with the "review" in The New Yorker. In "The Gospel of Judas" Jesus isn't as human or as divine as the Jesus we already have. He does say some interesting things, however. He talks about having heavenly parents and says God lives in a fixed location at the center of everything. Those ideas caught my eye. I just didn't find the Jesus in "Judas" to be very convincing.
Other modern Christians disagree.
What piques their interest about "Judas" is a passage where Jesus says Judas must help him set his inner self free and talks often about light. It's an old Quaker notion, really; the idea that the light — inner and outer — is the essence of spirituality. Now, others are turning to it. ...

Arts/Fabric/Quaker Samplers/Simplicity/Reap what they sewed/Sydney Morning Herald/Sydney/Australia/Oceania/19-Apr-06/... Even within the religious theme there are subsections, with Quaker samplers of special interest to many because of the austere simplicity of design. ...