Richter, born in 1932 in Dresden, is arguably the most famous living artist.
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Catholic art for your home doesn’t have to be cheesy
Hanging religious art shakes up class-based ideas about how our home should look.
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The stunning (and underappreciated) Mexican influence on American art
In the early 20th century, American artists were intoxicated by the way Mexican muralists transformed their people’s struggle for justice into narrative imagery.
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Tapestries by Raphael make brief return to Sistine Chapekl
The colorful and detailed tapestries depict the lives of Sts. Peter and Paul and events from the Acts of the Apostles.
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What the New York Encounter taught me about faith, art and friendship
Jesus did not always tell people who he was; he told them to come and see for themselves. It is the same way the church spread in the early centuries: by attraction.
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‘Ancient Nubia Now’ combines aesthetic brilliance with a political challenge
More painful, though not treated in the exhibition, is the current situation of Sudan, which only became independent from British colonial rule in 1956.
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These are the worst (religious) Christmas songs of all time
Christmas songs that invoke Jesus’ name or mention the Nativity story are not automatically more respectful than Christmas songs that don’t.
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The ‘Holy Angels’ mural heralds the Gospel and one Chicago church‘s vibrant history
Since 1990 a vibrant black parish has worshiped before the marvelous mural by Engelbert Mveng, S.J.
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‘The Warmth of Other Suns’ exhibit teaches us how to imagine crisis
“The Warmth of Other Suns: Stories of Global Displacement” is a lesson on how art can awaken us to the unprecedented crisis of refugees and displaced persons now numbering 70.8 million.
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The Case Against Sentimentality
Abstraction is fundamentally inhuman, even anti-human.