(RNS) It is not easy to be a respected member of the art-world intelligentsia and take religion seriously. “Religion and modern art continue to be typecast as mortal enemies,” writes Aaron Rosen. But ...
Spiritual and religious artwork hangs in the Springville Museum of Art for the 38th annual exhibition. Over 275 pieces were displayed. (Abi Falin Horspool) On Wednesday, Oct. 16, the Springville ...
Religious art, in modern times, has fallen from the liveliness of the Renaissance, when religion was civilization and men brought a homely vitality to their church art. John Singer Sargent’s* symbolic ...
CHRISTOPHER Knight’s principal criticism of the “Buddhist Meditational Art” exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (“Overstating the Religious?” Oct. 6) is that it focuses too much on the ...
In this program presented on March 29, 2009, a panel of distinguished museum directors and theologians discussed the roles that secular and religious art museums can play in the presentation of art ...
Julien Meyrat has some thoughts on why modern church architecture has failed to inspire Catholics. Excerpt: Outside a few rare examples such as Ronchamp, I sense that Modernism has failed to deliver ...
The director of one of the world’s oldest and most prominent art museums, the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, has suggested that religious artworks residing in institutional collections should be returned ...
No “-scope,” either “micro-“ or “tele-,” was needed last week for us to sight an article written “as if” for Sightings, so bold was its headline, so appropriate to be appropriated by this column on ...
For thousands of years art has played an important part in faith. “I would say that religion has always been an important theme in art,” says Nancy Ross, an assistant professor of art history at Dixie ...
JINHUA, ZHEJIANG, CHINA, January 21, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — Pujiang Fengming Religious Icons Art Co., Ltd. has drawn growing attention in the international ...
The visual key to Amedeo Modigliani's self-conscious Jewishness, says Mason Klein, the curator of "Modigliani Unmasked," an exhibition at New York's Jewish Museum, is a small sketch called ...