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Did early Christians lift the story for the Egyptian god Horus and slap it onto Christ? Sounds a little too similar if you ask me. (via the Friendly Atheist)
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Finally a royal with good taste…Koons post-economic crash looks like a whiny child of Wall Street. Please tell me his 15 minutes are over.
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In yet another sign that the world is changing for the better, an online petition spearheaded by Turkish academics, writers & others has already collected 22,000 signatures…as Simon says: "one Turkish friend told me, '[i]t’s a bit like putting your name on a ‘wanted’ list.' The “wanted list” is pretty big: over 22,000 signatures on the main website…"
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Someone got the holiday present I wanted…lucky bastard.
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Sharon does a brilliant recap of the last year in the Art Blogosphere.
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This strange ad reads: "I won because I used my friend's fireworks!" "Be like Obama! For Christmas and New Year's, use POTATO'S FIREWORKS."
Critic, Curator, Editor-in-chief and co-founder, Hyperallergic
The solstice is an important date in cultures without electric lighting. The begining of longer days is a huge deal. That’s probably why so many religious figures were said to be born on that day.
(Note: December 25 was the solstice on the defective Roman Calendar by the time Rome was forcibly Christianized by an emperor.)