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September 2009

September 04, 2009

Suppressing talent for success

Music reviewer Dave McKenna puts his finger on an odd phenomenon that tells us a...

August 2009

August 31, 2009

A new portrait of Shakespeare?

The Washington Post Magazinepublished a fascinating article on the possibility that scholars have discovered a...

August 04, 2009

Mozart at 7 years old

A previously unknown composition by Mozart has been discovered, written when he was around 7...

July 2009

July 29, 2009

Death of an avant garde artist

The avant garde choreographer Merce Cunningham has died at the age of 90. He was...

June 2009

June 26, 2009

The glory and the depravity of man

The two posts below come from two different articles and are based on two different...

June 01, 2009

Where to find your missing comics

Do you like the comic strips in newspapers? I do, though I don't think they...

May 2009

May 15, 2009

Michelangelo as secret Lutheran?

Anthony Sacramone reports on a strain of research that is linking Michelangelo to the "Spirituali,"...

April 2009

April 10, 2009

Grunewald on Good Friday

April 10, 2009

Grunewald on Easter

April 09, 2009

Dali on the Last Supper

Here is surrealist Salvadore Dali's take on the "Last Supper." Is it orthodox?

April 06, 2009

Happy Cranach Day!

Today is the commemoration day of Reformation artists Lucas Cranach and Albrecht Durer, April 6...

April 06, 2009

How Durer & Cranach helped invent the internet

Durer was one of the first artists to take advantage of printing technology. He carved...

March 2009

March 17, 2009

That stolen Cranach painting recovered

Mollie Hemingway passes along the good news that the Cranach painting we blogged about that...

March 10, 2009

If you see this painting at a garage sale. . .

. . .call the cops. It's a work by our own Lucas Cranach that was...

March 09, 2009

Who watches the Watchmen?

A number of my students have been eagerly anticipating last weekend's opening of The Watchmen...

January 2009

January 19, 2009

Andrew Wyeth dies

Andrew Wyeth, the modern artist who defied the modern art movement with haunting realistic paintings,...

January 15, 2009

Secretary of the Arts?

Barack Obama is being urged to institute a national arts czar, possibly holding cabinet-level rank....

December 2008

December 19, 2008

Call it art

Here is the answer to complaints about Ten Commandment monuments, Christmas trees, and nativity scenes...

December 05, 2008

My rare Art Book for sale cheap

I have come into possession of some extra copies of my book Painters of Faith:...

December 05, 2008

“The Decalogue”

I am teaching a film class, and last night I showed my students The Decalogue...

November 2008

November 12, 2008

Lincoln photo unpacked

The National Portrait Gallery is opening a huge exhibit on Abraham Lincoln. It includes this...

October 2008

October 31, 2008

Battle Hymn of the Reformation

Here is a multi-media Reformation celebration, with "A Mighty Fortress is Our God" accompanied by...

October 06, 2008

Raphael on Christ

"The Washington Post" had a rather remarkable feature, in a special Museums insert, on this...

October 03, 2008

China banning Christian classical music

The London Telegraph reports that as part of a new crackdown on Christianity, China is...

October 03, 2008

Illuminated manuscript

Zondervan is promoting the NIV with a bus that is going around getting people to...

September 2008

September 16, 2008

Cranach up close–really close

Thanks to Paul McCain for alerting us to this online resource from the Getty Museum:...

August 2008

August 25, 2008

Socialist fantasy

I did catch some of the closing ceremony. Just as China seems to have forged...

August 13, 2008

Tyranny as art

George Will, in an insightful column on Russia's invasion of Georgia, Russia's Power Play, makes...

August 04, 2008

Christian Samizdat?

Speaking of Solzhenitsyn. . . .At the Circe conference, Barbara Elliott spoke about the role...

July 2008

July 24, 2008

Sacramental theology & the imagination

The notable Christian thinker Peter Leithhart has written an essay entitled Why Evangelicals Can't Write...