>Artists for centuries have created through the visual arts -- images and
>objects which they hope will project their disdain of man's inhumanity to
>man.

Artists create to make people think.

What was the context of the viewer's comments?

What perspective was the artist coming from?

Makes you wonder about what?

Contemporary society.......

Dietary practices in the 21th century.......

The ideas of terrorism ...............

How someone would even be interested in sharing a grotesque event where
children die, shards of glass fly, and metal bends........

I wonder how many people have made the same comment as they exit the
Holocost Museum in Washington D.C.

Which part do you wonder about?......

Anne Lindsey


This morning NPR noted that the Palestinian Hamas and the Hizballah are not
>on President Bush's list of terrorist orginizations. Then this appeared on
>my computer:
>
>
>PALESTINIAN ART EXHIBIT RECREATES SUICIDE BOMBING IN JERUSALEM PIZZERIA
>  A Palestinian art exhibit in Nablus, sponsored by Hamas, recreates the
>Palestinian suicide bombing attack on the Sbarro Pizzeria in Jerusalem last
>month which killed 15 Israelis, 7 of whom were children, YEDIOT AHARONOT
>ON-LINE reported.
>
>  The entrance to the exhibit is decorated with Sbarro banners. As part of
>the exhibit, the visitors witness a simulation of the bombing, complete
>with pizza slices and faux body parts. The visitors can also view replicas
>of Palestinian suicide bombers holding Korans in their hands. Upon exiting
>the exhibit, visitors are confronted with an image of an Orthodox Jew
>hiding behind a rock. A tape recorder plays a message that says, "O
>believer! There is a Jew hiding behind me! Come and kill him!"
>
>  A 19-year-old Palestinian student who visited the exhibit recently said,
>"This reflects our reality well, I am very happy to see it."
>
>
>Makes you wonder...
>
>
>Yigal Levin
>Dept. of Philosophy and Religion
>University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
>315 McCallie Avenue
>Chattanooga TN 37403-2598
>U.S.A.