By engaging with art imaginatively, we can encounter that deeper reality that the Surrealists have always sought in their artwork.
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To see as Mary sees: Marian art in an age of distraction
Marian art shows that distractability is itself a form of attention, one that is essential to living a Christian life.
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A new exhibition celebrates the most cherished book of the Bible: the Psalms
“Sing a New Song: The Psalms in Medieval Art and Life” is on display through Jan. 4, 2026, at the Morgan Library and Museum in New York.
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When is art sacred? A Jesuit artist on what makes the absurd, the abstract and the ordinary holy
Sacred art is not defined by appearances or even an artist’s intention. It is holy when it awakens us to God, ourselves and the space in between the two.
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Flannery O’Connor’s artistic visions
Flannery O’Connor’s drawings, cartoons and paintings offer another way to take the measure of a woman who took the measure of our souls.
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Once mocked, Impressionism triumphs 150 years later in Paris and D.C.
150 years after the birth of Impressionism, two dazzling shows have been mounted.
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A radical Catholic among communist artists: The legacy of Jean Charlot
Jean Charlot was the friend and peer of Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros and other now-renowned Mexican muralists. But in one important way, he was not one of them.
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At the Metropolitan Museum, art communes with the saints in ‘Siena: The Rise of Painting’
A once in a lifetime exhibit of Italian paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York reminds us of the foundations of our faith.
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Sarah Sze’s art is not religious—but it reminds me of God’s nearness
Sarah Sze’s art, now on display at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City, prompts me to reflect on how God’s loving presence hums in the background of our lives.
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The sculptor of ‘Homeless Jesus’ talks faith, art and social justice
Catholic sculptor Timothy Schmalz has designed the most recent sculpture in the Vatican—the first there since the 1600s—and his many other works similarly show marginalized peoples in the church.