Mauro Pallotta, the Italian graffiti artist known as Maupal, has designed cartoon-like images of Pope Francis around the Vatican for a decade. On Thursday, he sat the podium at the Vatican news conference.
Art
Posted inArts & Culture, Ideas
The beauty and pain of being a ‘Nutcracker’ ballerina
How can ballet, an art form that is so physically and emotionally demanding, enliven women with God’s glory?
Posted inArt, Arts & Culture
Sarah Sze’s art is not religious—but it reminds me of God’s nearness
Sarah Sze’s art, now on display at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City, prompts me to reflect on how God’s loving presence hums in the background of our lives.
Posted inArts & Culture, Short Take
Alleged abuser Marko Rupnik has church art everywhere. What do we do with it now?
Father Marko Rupnik is a remarkably gifted artist. He also stands accused of horrific spiritual, psychological or sexual abuse. What should we do with his many works?
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A look inside the Vatican meeting that brought Pope Francis and Martin Scorsese together
What happens when 70 artists and writers come together to discuss the Catholic imagination?
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
This Earth Day, meet the artist making beautiful icons of God’s endangered creatures
Artist Angela Manno creates Byzantine Russian-style icons of threatened and endangered plant and animal species. And they are really extraordinary.
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The sculptor of ‘Homeless Jesus’ talks faith, art and social justice
Catholic sculptor Timothy Schmalz has designed the most recent sculpture in the Vatican—the first there since the 1600s—and his many other works similarly show marginalized peoples in the church.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: When Botticelli illustrated Dante
With ‘Botticelli’s Secret: The Lost Drawings and the Rediscovery of the Renaissance,’ Joseph Luzzi has written a fascinating narrative that tells the story of the drawings and seeks to revise our understanding of the phenomenon traditionally known as the Renaissance.
Posted inArts & Culture, Dispatches
‘The Quiet Girl’ at the Oscars shows the Irish language’s surprising resurgence
Film-making in Ireland has been in the shadow of other cultural successes in literature and music. That may all be about to change. At this year’s Academy Awards, there are three movies with strong Irish connections up for Oscar consideration.
Posted inFaith, Interviews
Interview: What’s it like to photograph Pope Francis?
Meet Paul Haring, the CNS photographer who covered the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI and the election of Francis, numerous international papal trips and the daily action of Vatican life for over a decade.