Art

How can the artist’s simple portraits and still lifes possibly affect us as deeply as they do?

An Easter reflection on Fontana’s ‘Noli Me Tangere’

Gerrit van Honthorst’s painting The Mocking of Christ is a painful reminder of the cruel, sardonic mocking of prisoners at Abu Ghraib.

In this Lenten season, Stanley Spencer’s Christ Carrying the Cross seems to transcend its time.

Both the hard facts and the fanciful legends about Patrick have the power to fascinate and instruct.

An exhibit on the treasures of Pompeii offers the reconstruction of a whole culture.

The art of George Tooker

Bruce Springsteen’s music touches on the the edge of religious imagery. But will it ever evolve?