(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 ...
Since 1993, the Museum of Contemporary Religious Art (MOCRA) at St. Louis University has been a haven for exploring the intersections of art, religion, and spirituality. Now, St. Louis is preparing to ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
JINHUA, ZHEJIANG, CHINA, January 21, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — Pujiang Fengming Religious Icons Art Co., Ltd. has drawn growing attention in the international ...