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 ...
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 ...
As the presence of artificial intelligence in our daily lives expands, so too do the ethical problems posed by the technology. As a Christian, I'm increasingly concerned with AI's presence in one of ...
The art historian James Elkins tells of his experience as one of four jurors for the 1990 exhibition “Revelations: Artists Look at Religions.” It was a big show with several famous artists in it, ...
The front entrance to the Springville Museum of Art. The museum is currently hosting its yearly exhibition highlighting spiritual and religious art in Utah. (Nathan Beitler) The Springville Museum of ...
Woodland Hills • From her tidy, meticulous Utah County studio, Latter-day Saint artist Rose Datoc Dall transports viewers to an unassuming stable in Bethlehem, a workaday wood shop in Nazareth, the ...
Museums are great levelers. Inside their walls, narratives, portraits, icons and altarpieces become paintings; crucifixes, totems and temple gods become sculptures; sacred objects, out of context, ...
Edward Berger didn’t grow up Catholic. “I was raised outside the church, but if we went, it would be the Protestant Church,” he says over the phone. But when he was 9, he attended a Catholic Mass with ...