Chloe Becker was upset when she realized she could not name a single African or African-American saint.
Art
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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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Review: British painter Jenny Saville finds truth in flesh
If there is a single artist working today who truly gets flesh, it is Jenny Saville.
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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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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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Meet the Catholic graffiti artist who created a giant St. Thomas Aquinas mural in Texas
The final design of the graffiti mural, along with the choice of artist to paint it, were great ways to highlight the bold moves the university was making.
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Why we need to design (and pay for) beautiful churches
An interview with Duncan G. Stroik, architect, author and professor of architecture at the University of Notre Dame.
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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.