Art Wars Intervention

 Museum studies, meet Biblical studies. I’m sure you’ll get along just fine. At Public Discourse, my case for casing up the world-famous marbles at the British Museum. “[N]othing cuts through red tape like grace.” (Amazing to think that the Apostle Paul would have seen the Parthenon Marble in situ.) 

UPDATE: And here is a follow up post at Radiopaper.

The Acropolis Museum in Athens awaiting the Parthenon Marbles, photo: Louis Dalibard

Commonweal and a conversation

Commonweal was kind enough to publish a piece that pushes my thesis in Mother of the Lamb in new directions. It's called An Unintended Icon?, and it regards architect Santiago Calatrava's accidental Virgin of the Passion. The collage below might give an additional sense of what I was getting at. The article is also my tell-all confession about growing up in New Jersey. I held nothing back. 

Also, I had enjoyed an extended conversation with Arthur Aghajanian at Image and Faith in his exciting Visual Faith series.