Saint Louis University’s Museum of Contemporary Religious Art (MOCRA) is the first museum to bring an interfaith focus to contemporary art. Through exhibitions, collections and educational programs, ...

“the first museum to bring an interfaith focus to contemporary art.” The Museum of Contemporary Religious Art was the brainchild of Fr. Terrence Dempsey, a Jesuit known to joke he was the only person ...

This experience started Elkins thinking about “the exclusion of religious meaning in contemporary art,” the subject of his book On the Strange Place of Religion in Contemporary Art ...

These comparisons make a vivid case for modern art’s extensive interconnections with religious and spiritual currents, but also reveal the underlying methodological debates that will need more ...

The Gettys, originally from Belfast, Ireland, hope to revive the art ... contemporary churches. They all loved In Christ Alone. "It really gets us back to that basic thing — that this Christian ...

Such Christian criticism of aesthetics seems especially necessary in the fact of a rising mid-twentieth-century disposition to restore the figure of Jesus to contemporary art forms. At this point ...

In a world with abundant public-domain (that is, free!) Christian art, and contemporary Christian artists eager for their work to be shared with the world, there's little excuse to choose ...

Israel is home to a wide range of significant Christian sites adorned with stunning artwork spanning various periods and styles. From ancient mosaics to modern frescoes, these masterpieces tell the ...