Eye of the Beholder in U. S. Catholic Magazine
Nothing challenges the conviction that we can solve any problem or control any situation like a natural disaster. But even in the midst of nature’s destructive powers, our longing for the rational leads us to seek an explanation. ...MORE
Though the Catechism of the Catholic Church defines angels as “non-corporeal beings,” for centuries artists have imagined them as having physical form. Usually depicted as idealized, winged human beings with coiffed hair and flowing clothing, angels never seem taxed by their encounters with humanity. ...MORE
“Art,” Agnes Martin once told an interviewer, “ is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.” Does anything restrained stand a chance of being noticed in a visual culture full of the bright and the bold, the loud and the splashy? Martin’s answer was to make quiet, delicate, methodical work. ...MORE
Dressing Objects: Addressing Our Longings
A recent journey from the Thai city of Chiang Mai to nearby Lamphun tookme down a road lined with tall rubber trees whose lower trunks were wrapped with cloth. ...MORE
Devoted to Art and Truth
“I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.”...MORE
