Iconocracy

The New Yorker - Cartoon by Eric Lewis. For....

Over at Sects and Violence in the Ancient World, Steve Wiggins ponders the question of when a decades-old portrait of Jesus in an Ohio school building becomes a religious object. Fast forward a few decades. The world has changed drastically. We are multicultural. The internet entertains us with such stories as this. If not for

For New Year's Day, my wife, two friends, and I saw Les Misérables. Visually, it's amazing. I found Anne Hathaway's performance most compelling and I decided that Eponine, played here by the broad-shouldered, tiny-waisted Samantha Barks, should have been called "Corsette." There is the critical scene in Hugo's masterpiece where Bishop Myriel, also known as

Resurrection of the Soldiers (1926-1932), Stanley Spencer

Sybil Andrews, Gethsemane, 1951, no. 24/60.