A recent retrospective at the Whitney Museum centers on the activist legacy of New York City artist David Wojnarowicz, but also reveals his latent Catholicism
A new graphic novel portrays a world of military coups, propaganda, minority rights, Christian-Muslim tension, and reactionary sexual norms through a child’s gaze
Thomas is the patron of all of us who would try to see Christ for ourselves, who would dare to draw close, to reach out and touch him and know him as Lord
This exquisite exhibition tells a multilayered story of the Catholic Church, the papacy in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and the Society of Jesus
Visit art galleries and museums and one thing is obvious: There's no subject not being tackled by one or more artists. Well, maybe one subject: religion
The critic and novelist John Berger argues that “the future has been downsized”—restricted to the mercenary parameters of finance capital and digital technocracy.
In Mary, God’s unique creative act becomes human procreation and the divine takes on visible form. We might think of her as the first Christian artist.
If you were to judge plein-air painting by the societies that specialize in, and set rules for, painting outdoors, you might think it a highly fussy field of art.
Sixty-five works on display in a recent exhibit reveal the Le Nains’ excellence in religious work and genre scenes, mythological allegory, and portraits.
Adam Sisman's new biography of le Carré—cartoonist, actor, mimic, linguist, expert skier,and spy—is intelligent, thoroughly researched, and tediously repetitive.
There is no release or relief in poet Dan Burt's story, just a stark and pervading sense of emotional sclerosis from the streets of Philly to the halls of Cambridge.
Barry’s new novel—featuring John Lennon as protagonist—meditates on place, grief, and longing, ranging across a century’s worth of literary and popular references.
The changes of Vatican II and the turmoil of the civil-rights and anti-war movements made for heady days, and Sister Corita Kent’s art further exemplified the times.
