Dalí and the Psychology of Sin January 11, 2021 Features, Highlight Although Dalí’s ambition outruns his ability to resolve all the contradictions that his work contains (quite in contrast to Dante), his attempt at the Divine Comedy is at least a reminder of the slow, cumulative, step-by-step nature of life as a pilgrimage.
Incarnational Abstraction in An Ancient Icon December 9, 2020 Features, Highlight 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.
Old Masters and Black Bodies November 12, 2020 Features, Highlight Using the tools of the old masters – grand canvases and oil paint, and fluently speaking their iconographic language – Ballon has moved Black bodies from the margins of the canvas to the forefront, portraying them as Biblical characters.
A Refuge of Beauty: St. Timothy’s, Winston-Salem October 2, 2020 Updates St. Timothy’s is a large and active church, but the renovation project has less to do with size than with creating a sacred space to complement and reinforce the decidedly high-church character of the congregation.
Window to a Spiritual World March 31, 2020 Essays & Reviews, Features The current El Greco exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago displays his mastery of multiple styles of painting.
They Made Me An Artist February 25, 2020 Features For 21 years, this weekly ritual of faith, food, fellowship, and creativity has attracted homeless and housed artists of varying skill levels, as well as volunteers who help everything go smoothly.
Advent’s Radical Prophet November 19, 2019 Features William Blake viewed himself first not as a poet or an artist, much less a political activist, but as a prophet, a seer who glimpsed the glory of God and was forever transformed.
The Art of Reconciliation May 20, 2019 Features The Parish of Calvary–St. George’s has welcomed a theater company called Sea Dog, which seeks to “tell stories of alienation and reconciliation.”
Easter to Whitsun with Thomas Noyes-Lewis April 10, 2019 Features A stream of the Church of England’s artistic self-image in the early 20th century reflected the genius of one man: Thomas Noyes-Lewis.
Research on Evensong Numbers February 21, 2019 News Musicologist Kathryn King of Magdalen College, Oxford, will study why people attend evening choral services.
