Latest Religious art News

Slideshow: Recreating religious art treasures from Africa

Artist Daniel Brazil of Wading River offered a workshop in the creation on reliquary masks and figures Saturday at East End Arts’ Carriage House in Riverhead Saturday morning. Bakota Indians of western Gabon and the eastern Congo used reliquary guardian figures or “mbulu ngulu” to guard the bones of family ancestors in the same way [...]

Photos: Recreating African religious art in Riverhead

Islamic Art: More Than Religious Artifacts

It's a vast, valuable and diverse category of art , and taking a narrow religious view could hurt you as an investor.

Restoration at Race and Religious streets is a family affair

A compound including a townhouse, slave quarter and cottage expresses a passion for architecture, design, art and history.

Religious Notes

The music department of the Cathedral Basilica of St. Augustine announces that the First Friday Art Walk Concert begins at 6 p.m. today at the Cathedral, 38 Cathedral Place.

DHS Proposes Rule Banning State-Funded Religious Activities In Preschools

LITTLE ROCK — The state Department of Human Services on Tuesday released a proposed rule clarifying that state funding for pre-kindergarten education must not be used for religious activities.

Art history professor on Wright’s religious architecture

In this Q&A, Weslyan professor of art and art history Joe Siry discusses his recent book, Beth Sholom Synagogue: Frank Lloyd Wright and Modern Religious Architecture . This tetrahedral steel structure in Elkins Park, Penn., constructed in 1959, was “technically unprecedented” in Wright’s body of work, and “represented a culmination of his involvement with religious architecture,” Siry says ...

Religious News in Brief Feb. 4-5

Saturday, Feb. 4 Souper Supper benefits mission trip NORTH POWNAL - The North Pownal Congregational Church will hold a Souper Supper with sundaes and crusty breads from 4 to 6 p.m. Support our teens from Grace Christian School who will travel to Guatemala this spring on a mission trip. Suggested donation is $5 per person or $15 per family.

Religious second-class citizens

The Issue: A New York City ban on leasing public- school space for off-hour religious worship. *** My family has lived in this city since the 1700s (“NYC’s Senseless Slap at Prayer,” Jordan Lorence, PostOpinion, Jan. 19). During all that time, we paid taxes. Our taxes built the very buildings...

The Wall Street Journal 02/03/12

How Can Skeptics Make Convincing Religious Art? Terry Teachout observes that, in many genres, "great works of devotional art have been created by skeptics, not a few of whom were fire-breathingly militant about their doubt." How do we recognize this paradox?

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