Editor’s Note: Dan Drage also interviewed Aaron Rosen, one of the curators of the Home Alone Together exhibition, about the origins and goals of the project. You may read their conversation here. ‘Together’ is a word which carries unusually poignant…
On Saturday, 25 April, 2020, over a dozen artists came together for a ‘Zoom-in Playback’ encounter moderated by Karen McClain Kiefer. This event was designed to follow the ‘Time and Again’ art exhibition. The dramatic performance was originally scheduled to…
Editor’s note: In Part 1 of this review, Kieran Gaya reviews the visual and literary component of Transept’s ‘Time and Again’ exhibition. In Part 2, he will review Karen McClain Kiefer’s ‘Time and Again: Playing it Back’ Playback Theatre performance…
One may be forgiven for questioning the theological value of art festivals; after all, they can be known for their unbridled commerce and questionable aesthetic taste, not to mention chaotic parking. Then again, so can churches. As a vision of…
EDITOR’S NOTE: As a preview to the format for Transpositions’ Friday posts in the coming Martinmas semester 2018, this ‘review’ summarises and further reflects on a meaningful seminar presentation in the Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts (ITIA) during the…
Editor’s Note: This is the first installment of a two-part review. Click here to see Part II. From 6thto 15thApril 2018, The Transept – a group of practicing artists within the Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts (ITIA) –…
While a scholarly investigation of art engages the imagination and intellect, a practical interaction with art employs the physical senses. More profoundly, art that is infused with spirituality can prompt the soul and the body to experience art at a…
Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr. Rembrandt’s Late Religious Portraits. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2005, 150 pp., £29.50 cloth. This catalogue accompanied an exhibition of seventeen works by Rembrandt from late in his career, held in 2005 at the National Gallery…
From now until 5 January 2014, Tate Britain is hosting an exhibition titled “Art Under Attack: Histories of British Iconoclasm”, exploring examples of religious, political and aesthetic iconoclasm over the past 500 years of British (mostly English) history. A manageable size…