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May 2010

May 24, 2010

Art vandalism as art

In a high culture that no longer believes in beauty or meaning, art becomes reduced...

April 2010

April 28, 2010

Iraqi Christians erect statue of Jesus

How about this for a defiant, death-defying public confession of faith? The Christians of northern...

April 14, 2010

Beauty & physics, liberal arts & liturgy

Catholic artist and educator David Clayton makes connections between science, aesthetics, classical education, and then,...

April 12, 2010

Caravaggio’s “Doubting Thomas”

From a sermon by Rev. William Gleason: Like many biblical stories, there are many pictures,...

April 09, 2010

The Statue of Responsibility

There is a foundation trying to raise hundreds of millions of dollars to build a...

March 2010

March 08, 2010

Abstract art and Nature

Here is another way to look at abstract or non-representational art. . . .Most of...

March 05, 2010

Abstract art and the Bible

Thanks to Tickletext for this great quotation from the Christian abstract artist Makoto Fujimura: I’ve...

March 05, 2010

Online family businesses

Bruce Gee is a long-time friend, baseball comrade, and commenter on this blog. He makes...

March 04, 2010

Technology to detect art forgeries

Dartmouth researchers have devised a way to use technology to detect art forgeries: Sparse coding...

March 04, 2010

Eye-gate evangelism

You've seen them: those huge roadside crosses. It seems that some pastors are promoting them...

January 2010

January 30, 2010

The Catechism as graphic novel

Concordia Publishing House is putting out an edition of Luther's Small Catechism in comic book--I...

January 27, 2010

Cranach painting for sale

A newly discovered work by Lucas Cranach will be auctioned off today at Christie's in...

January 20, 2010

How God is in the world

Longtime Cranach reader and commenter Dan Kempen "got" yesterday's post Makoto Fujimura on art, paganism,...

January 19, 2010

Makoto Fujimura on art, paganism, and worship

My former student and current. . . tech guru Stewart Lundy has a fascinating interview...

December 2009

December 31, 2009

The Liberty Cap

My son and I went into D.C. yesterday. I can tell you that the brand...

November 2009

November 02, 2009

The most powerful writer since Julius Caesar

More embarrassing, unbecoming, grovelling sycophancy from America's artists and intellectuals when it comes to Barack...

October 2009

October 30, 2009

The meaning of monsters

Stephen Asma is a philosophy professor writing in The Chronicle of Higher Education on Monsters...

October 27, 2009

Why conservative Anglicans can’t just go to Rome

My colleague Dr. Roberta Bayer, professor of political theory here at Patrick Henry College is...

October 26, 2009

Artists on Obama

Washington Post art critic Philip Kennicott reviews a book entitled Art for Obama: Designing Manifest...

October 15, 2009

Bach’s smackdown of Frederick the Great

I have just finished a book that I am going to count among my favorites...

October 14, 2009

A new Leonardo?

A previously obscure painting has been identified as a work of Leonardo da Vinci with...

October 05, 2009

Christian movies try to be better, but still. . .

From an article entitled "Growing quantity of `Christian’ films now focus on quality": In addition...

September 2009

September 30, 2009

Conversation with the Wittenberg playwright #4

More of my correspondence with David Davalos, author of the play Wittenberg, shared with his...

September 29, 2009

Conversation with the Wittenberg playwright #3

Picking up on my exchange with David Davalos, author of Wittenberg--the play about Luther, Hamlet,...

September 28, 2009

Conversations with the Wittenberg Playwright #2

Continuing the conversation with David Davalos, the author of Wittenberg, this is what I wrote...

September 25, 2009

Conversations with the Wittenberg playwright #1

You may recall that I recently blogged about a play I recently attended entitled Wittenberg,...

September 25, 2009

Old English treasure horde

Do you remember in Beowulf about the dragon's gold-horde, and how after Beowulf died killing...

September 23, 2009

Hitler as bohemian artist

Art historian Birgit Schwarz is making the case that Adolf Hitler, who considered himself an...

September 23, 2009

What's the appeal of bad writing?

Good discussion yesterday of Dan Brown's deadly prose. But this raises another question. Even though...

September 10, 2009

What makes this writing bad?

Dan Brown, author of the Christian-bashing, made-up-history-presented-as-truth, mega-selling novel The Da Vinci Code has a...