art and religion
In Somalia, a rare female artist promotes images of peace
By Hassan Barise — October 27, 2021
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Among the once-taboo professions emerging from Somalia’s decades of conflict and Islamic extremism is the world of arts, and a 21-year-old female painter has faced more opposition than most.
‘I never thought it would be a campaign’: Muslim artist’s work builds bridges in Pittsburgh
By Kathryn Post — September 7, 2021
PITTSBURGH (RNS) — Ebtehal Badawi’s painting has been used to promote racial and religious unity across the city.
‘The Witch of Kings Cross’ finds the woman behind the scandal
By Antonio Pagliarulo — March 4, 2021
(RNS) — Norton is a figure who may offer a few lessons for society today, when radical personalities and movements abound.
How Jesus became white — and why it’s time to cancel that
By Emily McFarlan Miller — June 24, 2020
CHICAGO (RNS) — Nearly a century later, both ‘Head of Christ’ and criticism of its role in enshrining Jesus as white endure.
The N-word of God: Envisioning the image of Christ
By Mark Doox — June 24, 2020
(RNS) — A war over Christs of different ethnicities, says an artist and iconographer, won’t bring humanity closer together in empathy or love.
Bono and Guggi: A friendship based on art, punk rock and Jesus
By Cathleen Falsani — August 6, 2019
VENICE, Calif. (RNS) — Now one of Ireland’s most celebrated modern artists, the U2 frontman's childhood friend and former bandmate, has a new exhibit in Venice, California.
In new film, Mary Magdalene is rechristened a revolutionary, healer and baptizer
By Cathleen Falsani — April 19, 2019
(RNS) — In the new film 'Mary Magdalene,' the title character is many things but not the one role in which she has been historically (mis)cast: the so-called 'fallen woman.'
Israeli Christians protest artwork depicting Ronald McDonald as ‘McJesus’
By Michele Chabin — January 14, 2019
JERUSALEM (RNS) — The controversy has raised questions about the limits of artistic freedom in Israel, which prides itself on being both a progressive country and the home to holy sites of three world religions.
Museums’ mislabeling can leave visitors with misconceptions of biblical proportions
By Menachem Wecker — December 6, 2018
(RNS) — Mistaken identification of religious imagery is more common in museums than many might think, misleading a public already less biblically literate than ever.
Bible museum is first in US to show mile-long illustrated Bible
By Menachem Wecker — October 25, 2018
WASHINGTON (RNS) — Working in obscurity, a German artist created an accordioning illustrated Bible that, fully expanded, would stretch more than a mile.
A preacher plumbs the art of the sermon by yielding the pulpit to passers-by
By Kayleigh Fongers — October 4, 2018
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (RNS) — A Michigan pastor has created 'The Preachers,' a performance art piece in which passers-by are encouraged to step up to a makeshift pulpit and preach for up to five minutes.
When Rihanna dressed as the pope
By Timothy OMalley — May 9, 2018
(RNS) — At this year’s Met Gala, New York’s biggest fashion night, the theme was 'Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination.' For practicing Roman Catholics, the red carpet coverage was at once thrilling and troubling.
Ellsworth Kelly may have been an atheist, but his chapel is undeniably spiritual
By Yonat Shimron — March 9, 2018
AUSTIN (RNS) — Much as he remained an atheist, the artist, who died in 2015 at the age of 92, could not escape the lure of religious iconography.
California artist weaves faith into acclaimed works, show
By Kimberly Winston — December 22, 2017
LOS ANGELES (RNS) — Lorenzo Hurtado Segovia is an acclaimed artist whose Christianity is both a touchstone and wellspring for almost all of his abstract works — and a way of reclaiming what it means to be a Christian from conservatives.
Far from the Museum of the Bible, these artists use the Good Book as their medium
By S. Brent Rodriguez-Plate — November 16, 2017
(RNS) — You could call these artists book lovers, but only in the way that you could call Michelangelo a marble lover or Edward Scissorhands a tree lover.
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