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July 2008

July 23, 2008

What do tattoos mean?

Richard Cohen asks why people get tattoos (which 40% of 26-40 year olds have) and,...

July 01, 2008

The poetics of Looney Tunes

Billy Collins, the former U. S. Poet Laureate, tells about how he was influenced as...

June 2008

June 25, 2008

Baptism at the Capitol

At Jamestown, I bought a reproduction of John Gadsby Chapman's "Baptism of Pocahontas." Imagine my...

June 19, 2008

So you think you can dance

Then don't measure yourself against Cyd Charisse, who died this week. Notice how in "Singin'...

June 09, 2008

Even Canadians got da blues

I'm still here at the Lutheran Church Canada convention in Winnipeg. Their convention seems much...

June 09, 2008

John the Steadfast

The new organization supporting the new "Issues, Etc." program is being named Brothers of John...

June 02, 2008

Erasmus, Tyndale, & Contemporary Christian artists

My student Nathan Martin, at Patrol Magazine, launches off after an account of hearing John...

May 2008

May 20, 2008

Christian art as the cutting edge

Jan Swafford in "Slate" has a fine discussion of Bach's "Art of the Fugue," a...

May 05, 2008

The (in)humanities at Yale

You have probably heard of that other example of monstrous evil, Aliza Shvarts, the Yale...

April 2008

April 07, 2008

Cranach & Dürer day

Yesterday, April 6, was the day set aside to commemorate the two Reformation artists Lucas...

April 07, 2008

The anti-Cranach

You might want to contrast the work of Cranach & Durer on their special day...

March 2008

March 27, 2008

Another big-name author turns to the right

First David Mamet, now Tom Stoppard, the British playwright, turns away in revulsion from 1960's-era...

March 26, 2008

Apprehending Beauty

In a comment to "Aesthetics & American Idol," Reader Mason Ian perfectly describes the "arduous"...

March 21, 2008

He saved others; He cannot save Himself

Grunewald's "Crucifixion" (Note how the same artist of this utterly dead Jesus renders Him at...

March 21, 2008

Aesthetics & American Idol

OK, OK, I know I was bad-mouthing "American Idol" this season when it first started,...

March 21, 2008

Why seek ye the living among the dead?

Grunewald's "Resurrection" (By the same artist who painted the Crucifixion, above. From the deadest Jesus...

March 20, 2008

Another Christian artist

We've been bragging about Lucas Cranach as an artist, but what about a contemporary artist...

March 19, 2008

Princess Sybille

Thanks--again--to Paul McCain at Cyberbrethren for keeping up with the Lucas Cranach boom. This achingly...

March 12, 2008

Lucas Cranach, our contemporary

Paul McCain points to even more critical acclaim for our man Lucas Cranach, whose art...

March 12, 2008

Born-again conservative

David Mamet is one of the few contemporary playwrights and screenwriters whose work, in my...

March 11, 2008

Cranach’s utter coolness

The artist, that is, not the blog. A big tip of the beret to Paul...

February 2008

February 25, 2008

Nothing to say about the Oscars

Contrary to my usual custom, I really don't have anything to say about the Academy...

February 20, 2008

Cranach painting updates

Paul McCain has put up some more material on his blog devoted to that Lucas...

February 12, 2008

A Cranach painting gets its own blog

A thousand thanks to Paul McCain, who has started a whole blog in honor of...

February 11, 2008

Another dream fulfilled

My wife's school held its annual chili cook-off and talent show last Friday. One of...

January 2008

January 24, 2008

Tastelessness in the Church

Jason Braaten, at Concordia TheoBLOGical Seminary, links to a good Touchstone essay by Anthony Esolen,...

January 22, 2008

Defacing Beauty with a Message?

Samuel Smith's thoughts on our recent post about study of the arts being good in...

January 16, 2008

What’s the use of studying a poem?

Thanks to Frank Sonnek for alerting me to this piece by literary critic Stanley Fish,...

December 2007

December 17, 2007

Cranach makes the New Yorker

Not the blog, the artist. The article lauds Lucas Cranach, giving a detailed account of...

December 10, 2007

The greatest work of art in the whole cosmos?

Karlheinz Stockhausen, the German advant garde composer of mostly non-melodic music, has died. He became...