Review: ‘Time and Again: Playing it Back’
On Saturday, 25 April, 2020, over a dozen artists came together for a ‘Zoom-in Playback’ encounter moderated by Karen McClain Kiefer. This event was…
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‘Thisness’: Jazz, Materiality, and Theology
‘Hey Teo—play some of that back’, jazz trumpeter Miles Davis comments on the delicate tune ‘Thisness’. [1] A previously unreleased track until its inclusion…
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Dance and Christianity
David Brown has written, ‘Dance’s continuing engagement with the divine stands as a silent reprimand to the Church for so arbitrarily narrowing its own…
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Review: Breaking Old Rhythms
Amena Brown, Breaking Old Rhythms: Answering the Call of a Creative God, Intervarsity Press, 2013, 144. pps., $10 / £6.30. “We are God’s poetry….
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Presence, Presentness, and Grace: Reflections on Art and Theology with Michael Fried and Marina Abramovic
Many of the abiding questions of both art and religion center on presence. In a theological register we ask: How does the divine become…
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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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Flash Point: Artistic Invasions Into the Everyday
They all tend to begin the same way. An individual steps out of the crowd in a public place, often a mall or transportation…
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Marcus Coates: A Quest for Visions – Contemporary Art & the Church
One of the most intriguing individuals at work in the art world today is Marcus Coates, a curiously atavistic figure, part-shaman, part-performance artist, whose…
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Risk to Life: The Ethics of Chris Burden’s ‘Shoot’
In this post, part two of a series on morality in art, we will move on to another of critic Robert Horvitz’ questions in…
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