Overshadowed by iconic images from Picasso 1932 and Bacon/Freud two of the Tate’s current exhibitions feature powerfully expressive crucifixion images. In 1932, the ‘year of wonders’ explored by Tate Modern’s Picasso 1932: Love Fame Tragedy, Picasso created thirteen...
The word apocalypse originally indicated an ‘unveiling’, and the speaker in the Book of Revelation is a ‘seer’. The Book of Revelation has generated ‘a ferment of creative responses in the visual arts’. In addition, ‘as artists or as audiences of art we can be...
Jonathan Anderson is an artist, art critic, and associate professor of art at Biola University. He is the coauthor, with theologian William Dyrness, of the book Modern Art and the Life of a Culture: The Religious Impulses of Modernism (IVP Academic, 2016). He is...
The Panacea Museum tells the story of the Panacea Society – a remarkable religious community formed in the early twentieth century. For 90 years, its members quietly lived, worked and worshipped God in Bedford while expecting the end of the world. The Society’s...
Camden Arts Centre is currently presenting the first solo exhibition in the United Kingdom of Giorgio Griffa, an Italian abstract painter who has been closely linked to the Arte Povera movement. The exhibition provides a rare opportunity to discover the breadth of the...
Two current exhibitions seem to suggest that it can. Nature Morte at the Guildhall Art Gallery London explores both the history of the still life and contemporary applications to invite viewers to pause, look anew at the human condition, and confront what it means to...
Art Awakening Humanity was an afternoon of short talks and meditations organised by St Stephen Walbrook in partnership with Awakened Artists and Watkins Mind Body Spirit Magazine. The event included contributions from artists, collectors and spiritual teachers centred...
Alexander de Cadenet's series of bronze and silver sculptures featuring ‘consumables’ contain a deeper spiritual message. This includes his ‘Life-Burger’ hamburger sculptures and ‘Creation’ – a large scale shiny bronze apple with three bites taken from it – two adult...
The British Red Cross notes that there are an estimated 117,234 refugees living in the UK, which equates to 0.18 percent of the total population. In 2015 the UK received 38,878 asylum applications – less than Germany, Sweden and Hungary – of which just 45 per cent...