The Tate has a gorgeous exhibition at the moment, peacocking two of the greats, Turner and Constable. They were contemporaries, rivals, and compared, even in their lifetimes. But was John Constable a Christian?
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Ask any artist if they have seen computer generated art which is designed to sell – to outsell the human. The question they’re wrestling with, is this: What is the point of being a human artist? Christians and their non-Christian colleagues are asking exactly the same question.
A book that has sold in the millions only repays the price of buying it if you start to journal. But is it a Spiritual pathway?
‘Do you understand what you’re reading?’, asked Philip of the Ethiopian. We can ask that, and other similar questions. Do you understand what you’re listening to? Do you understand what you’re looking at?
Let’s start with that red, which is the element which has attracted most of the negative attention. Is he bathed in blood? Burning in hell? What was Jonathan Yeo, one of our foremost portraitists, thinking?
Chris reviews a new book by the designer Thomas Heatherwick.
Once we have done our work/ministry to the best of our ability, it’s good for us to have something intentional to occupy our minds, and where we can take deep pleasure and refreshment, as a disciple in a different context.
All over the world, flagship Apple Stores are offering a free, immersive Augmented Reality experience; a walking Tour around six artworks, ‘anchored’ in the area.
Hutchmoot has just happened, in the UK for the first time. What, you ask, is a Hutchmoot? Well, let me tell you a story. In Nashville, Tennessee, lives the wonderfully talented Andrew Peterson. He’s a novelist, and a publisher, and a family man, and he keeps bees, but he is also, and above all, a
It is becoming harder for TV programmes to shock enough to get ratings, and that’s only partly because they up against an unrated internet. It’s also because as a culture (and Evangelical sub-culture) we have become much, much harder to shock.
These painters are explicitly aiming to paint an eternal tragedy. They are painting what we would call the Fallen Condition. They are expressing what it means to be a ruined Image Bearer.
