Darker layering shapes the tourist experience in ways that are not always apparent or transparent.
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Posted inArt, Arts & Culture
What I learned about art and spirituality on my pilgrimage to Texas
Three buildings argue over spirituality, art and public life.
Posted inArts & Culture, Dispatches
Why a janitor saved the rosaries confiscated at the Mexican border
Photographer Tom Kiefer took a job at U.S. Customs and was horrified to discover personal items in the trash. He decided to show them to the world.
Posted inArts & Culture, Film
Review: How the godmother of punk became a Dame of the British Empire
Vivienne Westwood is director of one of the last independent global fashion companies in the world.
Posted inArts & Culture, Dispatches
An Irish monk breathes new life into liturgical art in Toronto
Brother O’Herlihy says his paintings, which are not intended for galleries but for spaces of worship, are meant to inspire a prayerful dialogue with viewers.
Posted inArts & Culture, Video
LIVESTREAM: Inside “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination”
James Martin, S.J. discusses this groundbreaking exhibition with Andrew Bolton, Curator in Charge of The Costume Institute and C. Griffith Mann, Michel David-Weill Curator in Charge of the Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Posted inArts & Culture, Ideas
Catholic priests don’t wear suits to Mass. So why so many tuxedos at the Met Gala?
Celebrity culture’s boring (and not-very-Catholic) gender expression
Posted inArts & Culture, Podcasts
Father James Martin on the Met Gala and the “Heavenly Bodies” exhibit
Our May 9 guest is James Martin, S.J. editor-at-large at America. We discuss his recent interview with Andrew Bolton, “Meet the curator of the Met’s new “Heavenly Bodies” exhibit.” We also discuss these articles: Why Paul Ryan’s ‘economic approach’ to politics clashes with Catholic teaching Why the Met Gala is a good thing for Catholicism […]
Posted inArts & Culture, Video
What was it like to be a real priest at the Catholic-themed Met Gala
Eloise Blondiau, producer at America, sat down with Fr. Martin to discuss what it was like for a real priest at the catholic-themed event.
Posted inFaith, Short Take
So, was the Met Gala sacrilegious?
How should Catholics think about the Met Gala and its supposed sacrilege?