Arthur Aghajanian allows a Velázquez portrait to inspire a fascinating exploration of art, truth and contemplative stillness. “Then it was as if I suddenly saw the secret beauty of their hearts, the depths of their hearts where neither sin…
For our series of artist reflections connected to the Transept Interface exhibition, Melody Bellefeuille-Frost describes the creative process behind her collage This is Where We Live Now. And are we not at home in Thee, And all this world a visioned show; That…
As our week-long series honouring Dr Ewan Bowlby, our beloved past Editor-in-Chief who died in December, ends, his friend and colleague Karen McClain Kiefer offers a final reflection. It can often seem as if we live our lives under the…
Over the next four weeks, Transpositions will be publishing a series of articles in which artists exhibiting in the Transept Interface exhibition reflect on their creative process. These pieces will give fascinating insights into the ways in which unique artists create, as well as…
Giulia Privitelli reviews Le.Iva, a multi-media installation by Maltese artist Austin Camilleri exploring anger, grief and mortality. To grieve takes effort. At the end of a press tour of the exhibition Le.Iva | Anger is a Lazy Form of Grief, I was left with…
Eden O’Brien describes how watching Brideshead Revisited taught her that bingeing “opens up a new mode of experience” that is “primed for ritual and depth” in her contribution to our series on “bingeing” the arts. During the final weeks of Christmas break…
Matthew Nelson reflects upon Mike Flanagan’s new Netflix show, Midnight Mass, a masterful—and disturbing—tale in the Gothic tradition that engages questions of faith, religion . . . and bingeing. …all were amazed and perplexed, saying to one another, ‘What does this…
Alisha P. Aggrey describes how Ye’s ‘Revelation 19: 1’ became her ‘pandemic soundtrack’, giving her a daily sense of a Divine ‘encounter’ that transformed her ‘ordinary existence’, for the next article in our series on ‘bingeing’ the arts during the…
Nora Kirkham considers how Sally Rooney’s novel Beautiful World, Where Are You? encourages readers to seek out beauty and closer, richer relationships during times of ‘disenchantment and anxiety’, in the latest contribution to our series on “bingeing” the arts during the pandemic. …