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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Beyond Lines: The Relationship between the Artist and the Church [Part Three]
Editor’s Note: This is the third of a three-part series on the relationship between the artist and the church. The first post ran on…
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Reviews: A Higher Contemplation, and The Controversy of Renaissance Art
Stephen N. Fliegel, A Higher Contemplation: Sacred Meaning in the Christian Art of the Middle Ages. Kent, Ohio: Kent State State University Press, 2012, 136 pp., £36.50/$42.00…
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A View from the Monastery: On Behalf of Utilitarian Art
I’m coming to you from St Benedict’s Abbey in Atchison, Kansas, and I’d like to speak a word on behalf of utilitarian art. As…
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A Gesture in Kind
Nearly 450 years after his death, the artwork of Michelangelo is still making the news. This time as the subject of a study on…
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A Response to Siedell’s “Art and Culture, or Politics by Other Means–Evangelical Style”
In Engaging Art Prize: A Storied Theology of the Arts [Part Two], I suggested that a rightly Storied theology of the arts, one that acknowledges…
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Practical Considerations for Hosting a Gallery in a Church
Six years ago, in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Seattle, a Gen X church plant merged with a 110-year-old congregation to form a new…
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Telling the Story
At Blackhawk Church in Madison, Wisconsin we did a teaching series called “The Story.” The series was designed to tell the story of scripture…
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Reflections on “The Spirit of Prophecy”
Editor’s Note: In this post, Elizabeth Noyes reflects upon a show that she curated for St James Cathedral in Seattle, WA. The show was…
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