Visiting Scholar Series: Exactly Different
Recently a friend came over to our house for a visit, bringing her preschool daughter to play with our three year old son William…
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Jamini Roy and the Lesson of (Visual) Contextualization
On a recent trip to India I visited the National Gallery of Modern Art, Delhi. I confess I knew little to nothing about Indian…
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Artist in Residence Series: Art and Hospitality
I often paint in order to know/see what I feel. Sometimes what I feel is not only impossible to say, but also seemingly impossible to…
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The Art of Love
A work of art is a new creation, a thing with an existence of its own. As such it lives and speaks not only…
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Art and the Community of Others
Sara Schumacher has written previously on “The Relationship between the Artist and the Church,” arguing that artists must resist the temptation to view themselves as…
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Review: Through Your Eyes
G. Walter Hansen and Bruce Herman. Through Your Eyes: Dialogues on the Paintings of Bruce Herman. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2013, xxi + 117 pp., £32.99/$50.00…
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Review: The Religious Vision of Rembrandt
Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr. Rembrandt’s Late Religious Portraits. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2005, 150 pp., £29.50/$42.50 cloth. This catalogue accompanied an exhibition of…
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Here’s the Church, Here’s the Steeple: But With Robots, Not People
“…some to church repair, / Not for the doctrine, but the music there.” – Alexander Pope [1] On most Sundays the Norwegian Seamen’s Church situated…
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Upper Room: Alfonse Borysewicz, Artist in Residence
Editor’s Note: This is the second post in our new Artists in Residence series, a series intended to draw working artists like Bruce Herman,…
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