The Wound and The Coyote: Joseph Beuys’ Spiritual Vision
If you come in a space with a big flame of fire you will get burnt, and you cannot say: ‘This is the symbol…
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Where does our service lie?: The Christian Artist and the Church (Part 2)
Last week I brought up the topic of how we might think about the relationship of the artist to the church, raising some questions…
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The Worldview Behind the Work of Art: Five Cautionary Statements
Analysing a work of art by constructing a worldview that supposedly shapes the work of art or is embodied by the work of art…
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Where Does our Service Lie?: The Christian Artist and the Church (Part 1)
How are Christian artists meant to relate to the church? This is a question that has plagued us for centuries, and I definitely don’t…
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Featured Artist: Bruce Herman
Bruce Herman (b. 1953) is Lothlórien Distinguished Chair in the Fine Arts at Gordon College in Wenham, Massachusetts. Herman lectures widely and has had…
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Christianity, Creation, and Art
For the poet, essayist, and farmer Wendell Berry, people’s relationship with land and community is of utmost religious significance. This is especially important as…
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The Most Important Production of Art?
If i were asked to say what is at once the most important production of Art and the thing most to be longed for,…
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Buren’s Columns
In 1986 Daniel Buren created Les Deux Plateaux (commonly referred to as ‘Buren’s Columns’) in the courtyard of the Palais-Royal in Paris. The work,…
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The Calling of Christian Artistry: A Quick Look at Howard Finster
When I lived in Atlanta, I would keep a membership to the High Museum of Art, that way if was ever bored in the…
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