The mantra - like repetition of stitches together with vivid patterning, are reminiscent of mandalas and
other sacred art, but Cox imbues the works with an off - kilter humor and pathos that places them squarely in his head and from his inimitable hand.
I saw amazing silver and gold altars and incredible paintings, jeweled communion cups and
other sacred art that attest to the love that churchpeople have lavished on God for many centuries.
Not exact matches
He went on to say: «The
other arts — architecture, painting, vestments, and the
arts of movement — each contribute to and support the beauty of the liturgy, but still the
art of music is greater even than that of any
other art, because it forms a necessary or integral part of the solemn liturgy, because it is so intimately bound to the
sacred action, defining and differentiating the various parts in character, motion and importance.»
But it recognized Christ solely in terms of communion and this is why no
other art in any
other civilization ever caused the
sacred to embody so much of the human and so fully expressed the
sacred through the human.2
«To try to grasp the essence of such phenomenon by means of physiology, psychology, sociology, economics, linguistics,
art or any
other study is false; it misses the one unique and irreducible element in it - the element of the
sacred».
Other churches such as Santa Maria dei Miracoli, having lost their parishioners or religious congregations, have dispensed with the daily or weekly mass altogether and have become galleries of
sacred art, with the occasional Vivaldi concert or upper - class wedding.
More than common circumstances, however, what drew me and so many
other young writers to L'Engle was her articulation of the writing life as a
sacred art.
If beauty — not a particular beauty, but any beautiful thing — is a metaphor of the
sacred, then there is no such thing as a uniquely «religious» or ecclesiastical idiom in architecture or in the
other arts.
«To try to grasp the essence of such a phenomenon by means of physiology, psychology, sociology, economics, linguistics,
art or any
other study is false; it misses the one unique and irreducible element in it — the element of the
sacred.»
We discuss, among
other topics, about photography in the Middle East with Peggy Sue Amison, artistic director at East Wing; net
art and networked cultures with Josephine Bosma, Amsterdam - based journalist and critic; urban digital
art and criticality in the media city with curator and researcher Tanya Toft;
art and technology with curator Chris Romero; the politics of surveillance and international security with political scientist David Barnard - Wills;
art and architecture with Maaike Lauwaert, visual
arts curator at Stroom, an independent centre for art and architecture in the Netherlands; the intersections of art, law and science with curator and cultural manager Daniela Silvestrin; the architecture of sacred places with curator Jumana Ghouth; the historical legacy of feminism today with Betty Tompkins and Marilyn Minter; hacktivism and net culture with curator and researcher Tatiana Bazzichelli; culture, place and memory with Norie Neumark, director of the Centre for Creative Arts in Melbourne; anthropology and the tactical use of post-digital technologies with artist and philosopher Mitra Azar; or feminism and the digital arts with curator Tina Sauerlän
arts curator at Stroom, an independent centre for
art and architecture in the Netherlands; the intersections of
art, law and science with curator and cultural manager Daniela Silvestrin; the architecture of
sacred places with curator Jumana Ghouth; the historical legacy of feminism today with Betty Tompkins and Marilyn Minter; hacktivism and net culture with curator and researcher Tatiana Bazzichelli; culture, place and memory with Norie Neumark, director of the Centre for Creative
Arts in Melbourne; anthropology and the tactical use of post-digital technologies with artist and philosopher Mitra Azar; or feminism and the digital arts with curator Tina Sauerlän
Arts in Melbourne; anthropology and the tactical use of post-digital technologies with artist and philosopher Mitra Azar; or feminism and the digital
arts with curator Tina Sauerlän
arts with curator Tina Sauerländer.
Where the literary proposals of the original mirrors for princes contemplate the divisions between self and
other, male and female,
sacred and profane, Slavs and Tatars» turn to everyday ritual casts governance as self - governance, a universe of ambiguities, or in their own words: «the heart and
art of politics.»
Inspired by Masheck's remarkable essays on the relationships between modernist painting and icons and
other pre-Old Master
sacred art — what he dubbed «hard - core» painting — I wrote almost exclusively in support of abstract painting.
Other significant acquisitions and gifts of South and Southeast Asian
art over the past few decades have included a Leti mouth mask, a Mentawaian sacred carving (jaraik), and a male Batak figure, all purchased by The Eugene and Margaret McDermott Art Fund, Inc.; an Iban mask, gift of Albert and Elissa Yellin; and a figurative Timor door, gift of Diane Ansberry Rahardja and Andyan Rahardja and Family in honor of Louise Steinman Ansber
art over the past few decades have included a Leti mouth mask, a Mentawaian
sacred carving (jaraik), and a male Batak figure, all purchased by The Eugene and Margaret McDermott
Art Fund, Inc.; an Iban mask, gift of Albert and Elissa Yellin; and a figurative Timor door, gift of Diane Ansberry Rahardja and Andyan Rahardja and Family in honor of Louise Steinman Ansber
Art Fund, Inc.; an Iban mask, gift of Albert and Elissa Yellin; and a figurative Timor door, gift of Diane Ansberry Rahardja and Andyan Rahardja and Family in honor of Louise Steinman Ansberry.
In The Cartographer's Conundrum, a large installation currently on view at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary
Art (Mass MoCA), artist Sanford Biggers maps artistic, cultural and spiritual practices,
other disciplines and fields such as Afrofuturism, music, and
sacred geometry.