“Art” Articles

This month Christ and Pop Culture is pleased, in partnership with Crossway, to impart to our loyal readers… the secret of the universe.

An artist is both a creator and citizen in a worship relationship to God.

Even those of us who don’t understand high culture very well can splash around in the shallows.

“A Singer Addresses His Audience” sounds to me like an artist declaring no allegiance to listeners who are focused only on surface details, patiently reminding them that the real call is to be true to a vision, to climb a mountain toward something timeless rather than trendy.

Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s romp through the Louvre, punctuated by pastes and posts to her website, highlights a potentially disturbing trend of our culture.

The Goldfinch movingly illustrates the human craving for beauty, the innate longing for transcendence.

There’s an uncanny similarity between Noble and Webster’s work and God’s artistic process. Like them, he creates beauty out of the wretched, the discarded, and the dead.

While George Clooney’s wildly-uneven THE MONUMENTS MEN doesn’t know what it’s supposed to be, one surprising moment brings to light the film that could have been.

“It is in the mind of Christ that Christians possessing the indwelling Holy Spirit can search the riches of art, even art that doesn’t line up with our theology.”

“It’s worthwhile for grownups to consider our own understandings and ideals of childhood, because, after all, when it comes to the kingdom of God, aren’t we called to come as little children?”

“But the larger idea of ‘beauty’ has an unavoidable element of subjectivity to it in most cases, which is one of the difficulties in defining art as wholly objective.”

Holbein’s painting warns us against seeking complete knowledge as well as succumbing to fatal pessimism.

Recognizing beauty is a Christian issue whether the artist is or not