Featured Artist: Tim Lowly
Tim Lowly is an artist whose work I have admired for a long time. Here is some information that his website offers: Tim Lowly…
The Wound and The Coyote: Joseph Beuys’ Spiritual Vision
If you come in a space with a big flame of fire you will get burnt, and you cannot say: ‘This is the symbol…
The Worldview Behind the Work of Art: Five Cautionary Statements
Analysing a work of art by constructing a worldview that supposedly shapes the work of art or is embodied by the work of art…
Playing the Kingdom of God
Last week, I wrote a post on Buren’s Columns, and I said that this installation of striped pillars in the courtyard of the Palais-Royal…
Featured Artist: Bruce Herman
Bruce Herman (b. 1953) is Lothlórien Distinguished Chair in the Fine Arts at Gordon College in Wenham, Massachusetts. Herman lectures widely and has had…
Buren’s Columns
In 1986 Daniel Buren created Les Deux Plateaux (commonly referred to as ‘Buren’s Columns’) in the courtyard of the Palais-Royal in Paris. The work,…
Lucian Freud: More Than Enough
Lucian Freud is surely one of the great contemporary painters. At 88 years old, the Pompidou Centre in Paris is currently hosting its second retrospective…