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When the state security court sent Istanbul's Mayor Recep Tayyip Erdogan to jail in 1998, his pro-Islamic Virtue Party wept crocodile tears. The courts, guardians of the secular Turkish state, had been lying in wait for the charismatic Erdogan. So when he recited a well-known poem at a political rally, it was their chance to pounce. Their verdict was that quoting "minarets are our bayonets"; amounted to using religion to incite hatred - but many believe his greater crime was appealing to voters who wouldn't normally opt for a party with an Islamic reputation. The Virtue Party...
...Erdogan's turn to weep tears, but of joy. In 1999 he was released after serving four months of a 10-month sentence. On June 22 Turkey's Constitutional Court banned the Virtue Party for being a "focal point of anti-secular"; activities, a development that leaves Erdogan, 47, in perfect position to lead a large number of rebel M.P.s, tired of the autocratic leadership of the disbanded Virtue Party, into a new party of their...
...wind my way through theories about the manifold forms of heaven and earth, angels and demons, right and wrong, I'm melding the sacred and the secular. A mechanical medium seems inherently irreligious. But through it, I can latch onto - or into - some version of what the Hopi call "the holy something." Religion is interactive by nature. A message is conveyed to a believer, revealed, perhaps, by a Supreme Being, or manifest in one's surroundings, where spirits inhabit the trees, the rocks, the winds. The believer's life, fundamentally, becomes the response. This jibes rather nicely with the form...
...sacra conversazione” to be the altarpiece’s main attraction, the altarpiece’s exceptional background is surprisingly the cause of debate. Rather than coinciding an iconic religious background with the conventional religious imagery in the foreground, the artist unexpectedly copied a secular landscape from Guilio Campagnola’s print “Shepherds in a Landscape” as this altarpiece’s background. Rather than the conventional background of golden leaves and angels, the viewer instead finds a background of trees and pastures. “Sacra conversazione” stuns...
...Explaining his latest works as inspiration from the Jewish secular culture and tradition, Weil may easily mislead the viewer into seeing these paintings solely as celebratory art. Entering the exhibit, the viewer is immediately confronted by the cheerful oranges, reds, cinnamons and golds that dominate almost all of his paintings. The bright colors of the paintings create a startling contrast against the gallery’s white walls...