The images in Kara Walker’s “Christ’s Entry into Journalism” are a strange juxtaposition of past and present, disturbing fact and disturbing fiction.
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Posted inArts & Culture, Last Take
The Jesuit and the Shot Heard ’Round the World
Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie were shot by Gavrilo Princip, a Bosnian Serb, while riding in a limousine through Sarajevo on June 28, 1914.
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New exhibit highlights the forgotten history of the Chicano resistance
On the 50th anniversary of many historic moments of the Chicano movement, a new photography exhibit at The Autry in Los Angeles is telling the Chicano story through the eyes of its participants.
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The urban fantasies of Bodys Isek Kingelez
The Congolese artist has left us a form of art that transcends political and aesthetic categories.
Posted inFeatures, Politics & Society
Some of Europe’s top tourist destinations are homes to anti-Semitic imagery. What should be done?
Darker layering shapes the tourist experience in ways that are not always apparent or transparent.
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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.
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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.