The Museum of the Bible’s colorful exhibit features a copy of the Scriptures given to enslaved Africans in British colonies in the 19th century as a way to convert them to the Christian faith.
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What does America look like in 2019? The Whitney Biennial asks and answers.
Every other year it hosts the Whitney Biennial, which famously asks the question: What is art in America today? A question that can be broken down into two separate lines of inquiry: What is art? And, what is America?
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Looking for new religious art? Check your local high school.
Recently, images of a new mural painted by Chloe Becker—a junior at Magnificat High School in Rocky River, Ohio—have been moving through Catholic circles on social media.
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The Catholic art of Frida Kahlo
Kahlo’s paintings, the vast majority of which are self-portraits, are rife with self-revelation,
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A Stonehenge of Saints
The idea to have an open-air homage to the Celtic saints of Europe was the brainchild of Philippe Abjean.
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Why paint the saints? An interview with Carlos Vega
I sat down with the artist, Carlos Vega, at the Jack Shainman Gallery, to talk about his new exhibition “Correspondences” and find out why he paints the saints.
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“Confess”: The profoundly spiritual art exhibit tackling the abuse crisis
The idea of mounting an exhibition that takes on the crisis of abuse seems both essential for the Catholic community right now and near impossible to render palatable.. Trina McKillen’s “Confess” is now on view at L.M.U.’s Laband Art Gallery.
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Martin D’Arcy and the Art of English Catholicism
The legacy of and English Jesuit and the world class collection he brought to Oxford
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HBO’s “The Price of Everything” holds a mirror up to the modern art market
Nathaniel Kahn’s “The Price of Everything” features a veritable Greek chorus of modern-art market luminaries.
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The enduring strangeness of American conspiracy theories
A bleak alchemy is and always has been at work in the United States, binding documented whoppers to a wider, wilder paranoia.