Miracles surround us; burning bushes keep revealing the Lord’s work. But we need to stop and notice.
Art
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A pregnant pause: Mary and the Annunciation
Fewer than 200 words are attributed to Mary in Scripture, but those words have inspired innumerable prayers, hymns, sermons and other devotional practices, perhaps none more than her words at the Annunciation.
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Andy Warhol’s camouflaged Catholicism
Behind the camouflage of celebrity, who was the real Andy Warhol?
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How to experience the Bible in a digital world
A 21st-century arts collective revives illustrating the Bible for the digital age.
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Meet Hilma af Klint, the spiritualist and unknown pioneer of abstract art
For the first time, viewers in the United States can see 193 of Hilma af Klint’s earliest abstractions in “Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future,” at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Learning to be Quiet with Tomie dePaola
Tomie dePaola speaks with America executive editor Kerry Weber about his latest book “Quiet” and what he hopes children will learn from his work.
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Review: Eugène Delacroix exhibit arrives for the first time in America
Following an acclaimed exhibition of the great French Romantic painter Eugène Delacroix at the Louvre in Paris, the Metropolitan Museum of Art opened, on Sept. 17, the first full presentation of the artist ever to be held in North America.
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Review: Finding hope in the anger of David Wojnarowicz
David Wojnarowicz’s place in the history of American art is conflicted. He is likely best remembered for his involvement in the culture wars. But, removed from the stigma of a polarized culture war, what observations can we take away from this exhibition?
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Idols, icons, images, illusions: Reviewing Mary Beard’s ‘How Do We Look’
Mary Beard’s new book is about the viewer as well as the viewed. It prompts us to think about how we construct our sense of civilization and the troubling ways that artistic depictions of the human and the divine serve to cement bias and, sometimes, provoke violence.
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Shining a light on St. Paul: Archaeological site renovated
Large detailed illustrations show the evolution of the area—from busy construction and expansion in the fifth to eighth centuries to its gradual decline after the 10th century.