[BBC] Two mummies, perhaps 200-years-old, have been discovered in a Brazilian monastery with their hands in an “Amen position.”
[Tucson Weekly] Daniel Martin Díaz’s sacred art is on exhibit in a profane place, where “the hunger for food, alcohol and sex is palpable.”
[The Hawk, SJU] Jesuit painter Dennis McNally says, “I am always doing religious art. Although sometimes the subject matter is landscape, or abstraction, or about war or the aftereffects of tragedy, it’s always about God and us.”
[WSJ] “In the contests of art, Christianity wins hands down, if only because Islam, like Judaism, prohibits depictions of the deity.”
[Christian NewsWire] White Stone Gallery, “the biblical fine art gallery,” is moving to Philly.
[Antiques and the Arts] Edward Hicks‘ “The Peaceable Kingdom,” a promised gift of Ralph Esmerian to the American Folk Art Museum, will no longer reside at the museum. Esmerian has sold the piece, which was collateral to Merrill Lynch and to Christie’s.
[NDTV] Indian artist Anjolie Ela Menon, who is “very influenced by early Christian art,” says, “I thought the colorization and iconic of Christian art was much more like what we have here.”
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