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Three NYC Institutions Come Together to Examine Three Intertwined Religions

Avatar photo by Daniel A. Gross March 28, 2018

This week, a workshop and ongoing exhibition — described as “a contemporary pilgrimage” — examine physical spaces with interfaith meanings.

Posted inArt

The Vivid Violence and Divine Healing of Ex-Voto Paintings

Avatar photo by Allison Meier January 6, 2017January 6, 2017

The ex-voto painting is a Catholic folk art tradition depicting individual misfortunes that were mollified by divine intervention.

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Captivating Objects from the Met’s Sprawling Exhibition on Medieval Jerusalem

Avatar photo by Allison Meier January 4, 2017

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York takes an on-the-ground view of life, war, and devotion in Jerusalem during the medieval era.

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The Gift of Simplicity in America’s Love Affair with the Shakers

Avatar photo by Allison Meier November 7, 2016November 7, 2016

The Metropolitan Museum of Art examines the emergence of 19th-century Shaker minimalism, and its influence on American Modernism.

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The First Known Depiction of a Witch on a Broomstick

Avatar photo by Allison Meier October 24, 2016October 27, 2021

In the 15th century, the image of the witch flying on a broomstick first appeared, its meaning laden with sexual and spiritual depravity.

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How Anamorphic Paintings Represented the Miracles of the Saints

Avatar photo by Allison Meier August 8, 2016August 9, 2016

Which saint you see in this 17th-century painting depends on where you stand.

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Sacred Bones and the Catacomb Saint of Manhattan

Avatar photo by Allison Meier December 16, 2015December 21, 2015

Catholic churches in Europe host as many bones as a graveyard, with bits of saints and intact incorrupt bodies encased in glass and displayed on ornate altars.

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Rubin Museum Opens Expanded Buddhist Shrine Room

Avatar photo by Allison Meier October 23, 2015December 5, 2016

Flickering light and faint sounds of chanting accompany the Rubin Museum of Art’s expanded Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room, where visitors to the Chelsea museum can pause in a space of contemplation.

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Belief, Reason, and the Origins of the World in a Striking Series of 19th-Century Illustrations

Avatar photo by Allison Meier October 28, 2014October 15, 2022

Galileo and other troublemakers aside, science and religion didn’t have such a complete falling out until the 19th century.

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Rare Windows Into the Past: Canterbury Stained Glass Arrives at the Cloisters

Avatar photo by Allison Meier March 5, 2014March 8, 2014

Six of the medieval stained-glass windows that usually soar some 60 feet up in England’s Canterbury Cathedral are on their first journey outside of their ecclesiastical home, brought down to a more intimate level in an exhibition at the Cloisters in Upper Manhattan.

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Satanist Group Proposes 19th C Horned-Goat Monument for Oklahoma Capitol

Avatar photo by Allison Meier January 7, 2014January 10, 2014

The Satanic Temple of New York unveiled on Monday designs for a Satanic monument on the steps of the Oklahoma State Capitol. The edifice, featuring plenty of occult symbolism and smiling children, is proposed for the site adjacent to the capitol’s controversial Ten Commandments statue.

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One Nation Under Satan: Religious Sculpture on State Property Rankles in Oklahoma

Avatar photo by Allison Meier December 13, 2013

One only has to stumble over the last lines of the Pledge of Allegiance or look at the back of a dollar bill to see how monotheistic religion is cemented in the United States.

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