RELIGIOUS ART | NEWS OF WEEK

ALPHA OMEGA ARTS
By TAHLIB, Curator

With its grids of stripes, "Horizontal Soul" resembles a "new age" game board, but was just installed in an old age Roman Catholic church. Why would such a painting belong in a church? I believe it signals how Catholics, like Jews and Muslims, "live" in the challenge of the equal authority of both the sacred word and our sacred traditions. We believe that the soul lives on in both a vertical immortality in heaven but also in a horizontal immortality as part of a collective people. For that reason, "Horizontal Soul" (above) by Sean Scully is our NEWS OF WEEK.

In other religious art news from across the USA, and around the world:

• Buddhist Art of Week: Sanchi Stupa is an ancient Buddhist site in central India [More News]
• Christian Art of Week: Riccardo Tisci puts Christ on the runways in Paris [More News]
• Hindu Art of Week: Saint Manikkavichavakar was a poet and mystic [More News]
• Islamic Art of Week: Indiana's Yasmine K. Kasem wins sculpture award [More News]
• Jewish Art of Week: Brooke Sendele Foster uses color to reflect her roots [More News]

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