Anyone who has looked even casually at books of art history surely has noticed how the religious paintings and sculptures that flowed strongly through past centuries slow to a trickle in our period.

As S. Brent Plate finds: "Dig around in art, and we find religion. Dig around in religion, and we find art." ...

The 200 images in “Art + Religion” run the gamut from the cartoonist R. Crumb’s version of Genesis to the painter Makoto Fujimura’s abstract illustrations for the King James Bible.

Religious art is all about teaching those principles. Even when religious overtones may not be apparent in the art, some viewers might pick up on it.

In this program presented on March 29, 2009, a panel of distinguished museum directors and theologians discussed the roles that secular and religious art museums can play in the presentation of art ...

Installation view of “Spain, 1000–1200: Art at the Frontiers of Faith” at the Met Cloisters. Many of the precious objects in the Fuentidueña Chapel Gallery were religious in origin, but ...

Crypto-religious art maintains its “crypto” status by not declaring itself, and the culture wars of the late-Reagan-early-Bush years made that position untenable.

I might call it "art about a religious subject" -- but that's not the same thing. I just wish that today's religious art had more art in it, and today's secular art had more God in it.

I’ve heard nothing but, erm, good about “Good Friday,” the Museum of Contemorary Religious Art‘s latest exhibit. (Jeannette visited the exhibit not long ago … read her take here.) On Sunday, Saint ...

Hessink’s Fine Art Auctioneers invites collectors and art enthusiasts to its upcoming Religious Art Auction, taking place on 17 May 2025 at 11:00 AM in Beek, Limburg, Netherlands. This curated event ...

An overview of religious influence on Korean art throughout history. Asia Society’s purpose is to navigate shared futures for Asia and the world across policy, arts and culture, education, ...