From the mid 1990’s Mambo designer Reg Mombassa shocked, horrified and delighted with his, now, iconic series titled “Australian Jesus.” The overwhelming community reactions to Mombassa’s, arguably, sacrilegious art has given rise to a social, political, theological, and academic debate…
Lucian Freud is surely one of the great contemporary painters. At 88 years old, the Pompidou Centre in Paris is currently hosting its second retrospective of Freud’s work. Only three weeks ago, I had the pleasure of attending that exhibition, and…
Political philosopher…turned mechanic…turned New York Times Bestseller? That’s Matthew B. Crawford for you. His book Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work, has been raved about (and rightly so, I think) for it’s down-to-earth and extremely…
Artists are often perceived as isolated or alienated, and this can have a grain of truth. If an artist is crafting a work by himself, and is working in an art form that is unpopular with the general public of…
Diary of an Arts Pastor recently listed his top 41 artist biographies. The Agony and the Ecstasy, Irving Stone’s biography of Michelangelo, made no. 22. In 1965, there was a film of the same name, starring Charlton Heston and Rex…
When it comes to criticism and interpretation of art and culture, of the writing of books, journal articles, blog posts and facebook notes there is no end. And of course, not all of this criticism and interpretation is insightful or…
Describing Sport as a Religion is nothing new – heck, I’ve done it here and here – but this year I’ve started noticing a different trend: Sport as all-powerful and all-knowing. Like one of the classical Fates (the women with…
Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things. (Phil 4:8) After watching Alejandro González Iñárritu’s 2006 thriller Babel the other…