Art
The last time anyone attempted to catalogue all known Gothic ivory sculpture was a three-volume publication from a French scholar in 1924, but now the Gothic Ivories Project at London's Courtauld Institute of Art is taking a 21st century stab at it with an online database.
Opinion
As anyone who's ever been expected to represent their entire religion/race/ethnicity/gender/world view knows, it's a pretty difficult task. And yet this is what it seems random volunteers are being asked to do for an exhibition that opened at Berlin's Jewish Museum a week and a half ago. The show, t
Interview
The close relationship that art and religion maintained for several millennia has in recent decades eroded so drastically that it's difficult to imagine fine arts and contemporary religion having anything in common. Art is, on the whole, a secular enterprise, and religion is frequently more anesthet
Opinion
LOS ANGELES —Travel around East and Southeast Asia enough and you'll invariably come across at least one big Buddha. Cut from stone or marble or any other substantive material, they dominate the room with their presence. Then there's Kobe-based sculptor Yuji Honbori.
Opinion
Last week, the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo published an image of Mohammad on its cover saying, "100 lashes if you don't die of laughter!" Sadly, some right-wing muslim zealots firebombed the headquarters of the magazine, but don't think that shut up the publication. No siree, this week t
News
The National Portrait Gallery has caved under Republican political pressure and removed a potentially “offensive” video work by David Wojnarowicz, a multi-media artist who was felled by AIDS in 1992, from its Hide/Seek exhibition. The exhibition, deemed brave and important by critics, uncovers previ