This exhibition reveals how artist Ben Shahn retained a position as both an outsider and an insider to multiple art world and political discourses simultaneously.
In the extraordinarily subjective world of Caspar David Friedrich, we are almost always positioned before a landscape that strongly suggests our presence.
The art of Siena represents a moderate, graceful, and less realistic alternative to the naturalistic but sometimes inelegant and occasionally even somewhat awkward art of Giotto.
According to the great 20th-century rabbi and theologian Abraham Joshua Heschel, there are two types of ignorance: one dull, lazy, and uninquisitive, the other...
Veteran African American artist Ben Jones has long explained his art as a corollary of his spiritual journey, having not only a formal beauty and a social message, but also a spiritual purpose.
St. Francis modeled a fully embodied approach to the spiritual life, by imitation of Christ's poverty and suffering and ultimately by the physical marks of the stigmata on his body.
To fully appreciate the painting within its historical context, we must understand that the frontier West was not merely a geographical region in the 19th-century imagination.
Part of the effect of this photographic installation is that these pieces are so unlike anything else in the church, which is in almost every respect entirely conventional in all its furnishings.
Spirit-Driven Stitchin’
Church of the Heavenly Rest
1085 Fifth Avenue
New York City
November 6-December 31
Posey Krakowsky’s sumptuous quilts not only sew various disparate fabrics, surface designs, and...
By Dennis Raverty
At first glance, the Franciscan crucifix at Holy Trinity Episcopal Church in New York City looks like a traditional Byzantine-style Eastern Orthodox...
What struck me when I saw the work in person last year was how modern the work appeared, with its hauntingly expressive distortions. Rarely have I encountered such a powerful sense of presence in any image.
The painter of whimsical Santa Clauses and solicitous policemen turned to a very different sensibility at the end of his career, producing what may be his finest work.
