What happens when 70 artists and writers come together to discuss the Catholic imagination?
Art
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.
Posted inArt, Faith
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.
Posted inArt, Arts & Culture
I asked an AI art generator to draw the communion of saints. I don’t love what it revealed about the Catholic Church.
What does A.I. paint as the communion of saints? And what does that say about how we have taught it to visualize the saints?
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Uncovering the Jesuit influence on Vermeer, one of the Netherlands’ greatest painters
Johannes Vermeer’s renowned use of light may have been more than just an artistic statement; it seems likely it was a spiritual one, as well.
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‘We have not hidden anything’: Jesuit superior general interviewed on abuse allegations against Marko Rupnik
“Any case like this is very painful, [but]…. we have not hidden anything,” says Arturo Sosa, S.J., the superior general of the Society of Jesus.
Posted inArts & Culture, Theater
A new ballet stars differently abled performers. What could it teach the church about inclusion?
“The Church could welcome more artists by creating more events to showcase the talents within their parishes and to foster artist/patron relationships.”