In Defense of Our Obsessions
Thomas Millay on Rita Felski Recently, I found myself watching an interview with the Irish fiction author Sally Rooney. She gave cogent answers
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Islamic Art History: The Myth of Secularity
Wendy M.K. Shaw in Conversation Art history is often presented as a field cleansed of religious impulses during the process of modernity. This
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Poetry: Politics, Religion, and Peace. An Interview with Pádraig Ó Tuama, Part Two
This conversation was held at Niebuhr Hall, and kindly co-sponsored by Yale Divinity School and the Yale Institute for Sacred Music. We invite
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Christian Wiman Illuminated
Scott Casleton Reviews Christian Wiman’s He Held Radical Light The poet possesses the power of transfiguration. Like Phalaris’ bronze bull transforming the cries of
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Islam and the Art of the Cross
Evan Kuehn reviews Navid Kermani Art and religion face each other. Their gaze can offer unity beyond the oppositional pairs that define our
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Neo-Donatists in Eden
Ed Simon on what to think of immoral artists Edmund Spenser knew how to turn a phrase. His vision, exemplified by his epic The
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The Painted Book: Illumination Revived
Jakub Koguciuk reviews Jonathan J.G. Alexander’s The Painted Book in Renaissance Italy Study of manuscript illumination in the Renaissance appeared pronounced dead before
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Art in a State of Siege
Joseph Leo Koerner on Art and the Reformation We in the field of Northern Renaissance art have hardly finished celebrating one big anniversary,
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Is There Racism in Heaven?
Nick Cave’s Until at MASS MoCA Until by Nick Cave, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA, on view through September 4, 2017. Nick Cave
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Beautiful and Meaningless
Bosch and Bruegel Beyond Iconography In the tenth canto of the Inferno, the poet Dante and his guide Virgil make their way through
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