Voices
Leo J. O’Donovan, S.J., is president emeritus of Georgetown University and director of mission at Jesuit Refugee Service/USA.
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Kelly’s work abstracted from visual experience only to return us to it.
It is the birth the artists paint, not the incarnation as such.
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The migration paintings of Jacob Lawrence
The artist dying young is one of the founding myths of 20th century Modernism. A. E. Houseman celebrated the athlete dying young. In England Wilfred Owen became the icon of the poet giving his life for his country. August Macke and Franz Marc, lost at the front in the Great War, had been radiant hop
How to choose from the bountiful treasury of images awaiting our contemplation (and sheer delight) in this darkening season before Christmas? Do you prefer Netherlandish precision and detail? Italian tenderness and warmth? The classical proportions and palette of Poussin? The transcendent simplicity
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“Alibis: Sigmar Polke 1963–2010" is at the Museum of Modern Art in New York through Aug. 3.
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Charles Marville’s photographs of a city transformed