By Dennis Raverty Henry Ossawa Tanner: Modern Spirit Cincinnati Art Museum through September 9 Houston Museum of Fine Arts, October-January Gustave Courbet, radical leader of the 19th-century Realist movement in Paris, when asked to include angels in a commission, famously quipped: “Show me an angel and I will paint one.” This sums up the dilemma faced by any realistic … [Read more...] about Realism and Transcendence
Archives for July 17, 2012
Due in September
By John MartinJeremy Vine, a leading BBC broadcaster and high-profile Anglican, found himself unusually at loss for words a few days ago. In a game of chess with his eight year-old daughter he found her insisting that chessboard bishops were women.After the July sessions of its General Synod in York the Church of England remains in limbo on women in the episcopate. Expectations … [Read more...] about Due in September