Gerhard Richter dazzles us with beauty that will intimate for many what is indeed beyond all human imagining.
Art
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Searching for Beauty—and God—in the Age of Instagram
At the same time I haven’t been recognizing beauty every time it is before me, I also haven’t been recognizing God. What if those disconnects are related?
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A new HBO documentary shows us the power of Black art in America
“Black is not the absence of color. Black is a particular color,” the artist Kerry James Marshall tells us. The particularity of Blackness as it pertains to art is the backbone of this documentary.
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The ‘O Antiphons,’ Reimagined
Ansgar Holmberg, C.S.J., 86, didn’t paint her O Antiphon series to edify or instruct anyone. They were meant only for herself.
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Why is Darth Vader in the Vatican’s Nativity scene?
The Vatican unveiled its official Nativity scene in St. Peter’s Square on Friday evening, surprising some with its depiction of an astronaut and another figure wearing a Darth Vader-esque helmet coming to adore the Christ child.
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Review: The significant questions of a creative life
Using familiar methods of interpretation, Christopher Pramuk translates stories that illuminate paths to the transcendent when communicated through the arts.
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Dante is remembered most for his depiction of hell. This sculptor wants us to remember heaven, too.
“In our culture Dante is becoming lost.”
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Patriotic paintings we can be proud of on the 4th of July
Leo. J. O’Donovan, S.J., makes a virtual visit to the American Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
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Jesus was not white. Here’s why we should stop pretending he was.
If Jesus is white and you’re not, what does that say about your relationship with him? What does it mean that Christ came for “all,” if you feel left out?
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I had Covid-19. Ballet renewed my faith in the human body.
To a world in upheaval, ballet is an emblem of calmer times.