(RNS) It is not easy to be a respected member of the art-world intelligentsia and take religion seriously. “Religion and modern art continue to be typecast as mortal enemies,” writes Aaron Rosen. But ...

The art historian James Elkins tells of his experience as one of four jurors for the 1990 exhibition “Revelations: Artists Look at Religions.” It was a big show with several famous artists in it, ...

For thousands of years art has played an important part in faith. “I would say that religion has always been an important theme in art,” says Nancy Ross, an assistant professor of art history at Dixie ...

In this program presented on March 29, 2009, a panel of distinguished museum directors and theologians discussed the roles that secular and religious art museums can play in the presentation of art ...

No “-scope,” either “micro-“ or “tele-,” was needed last week for us to sight an article written “as if” for Sightings, so bold was its headline, so appropriate to be appropriated by this column on ...

A hallway of children's artwork is featured in the gallery of spiritual and religious art at Springville Museum of Art. Only 200 of the 900 submissions were featured. (Haley McIlroy) The 39th annual ...

CHRISTOPHER Knight’s principal criticism of the “Buddhist Meditational Art” exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (“Overstating the Religious?” Oct. 6) is that it focuses too much on the ...

Religious art, in modern times, has fallen from the liveliness of the Renaissance, when religion was civilization and men brought a homely vitality to their church art. John Singer Sargent’s* symbolic ...