Saint Louis University’s Museum of Contemporary Religious Art is the first museum to explore the spiritual and religious dimensions in contemporary art. Through exhibitions, collections and ...
The art historian James Elkins tells of his experience as one of four jurors for the 1990 exhibition “Revelations: Artists Look at Religions.” It was a big show with several famous artists in it, ...
Cover of Erika Doss's Spiritual Moderns featuring Agnes Pelton's "Sand Storm" (1929) (image courtesy University of Chicago Press) Religion influenced modern art's development far more than most ...
Religious art, in modern times, has fallen from the liveliness of the Renaissance, when religion was civilization and men brought a homely vitality to their church art. John Singer Sargent’s* symbolic ...
Art once again found itself at the centre of a controversy in Kerala, reigniting debates on censorship, religious sentiments, ...