RELIGIOUS ART | NEWS OF WEEK

ALPHA OMEGA ARTS
By Gregory & Ernest Disney-Britton

Confiscated bibles in “El Sueño Americano (The American Dream)” by Tom Kiefer

We are in a Samaritan moment when artists are naming the brokenness and transforming it into beauty. One such artist is Arizona-based Tom Kiefer. He is a fine art photographer and graphic designer who retrieved the confiscated belongings of South American migrants that our Custom’s officials tossed into the trash. Kiefer then organized and photographed them. Combining his twin skills as graphic designer and photographer, Kiefer has created a snapshot of our American struggle with immigration to symbolize our collective responsibility. That's why Tom Kiefer's “El Sueño Americano (The American Dream)” is our art of the week.

NEWS OF WEEK from across the USA, and around the world, see below:

Photographer of the Week: Mikhael Subotzky explores the relationship between social storytelling and religion in his third monograph, "Ponte City (Steidl, 2014)".
Restoration of the Week: "Mystic Lamb", a 15th-century Flemish masterpiece by the Van Eyck brothers is unveiled.
Acquisition of the Week: Léopold Flameng after Eugène Delacroix, St. Sébastien secouru, ca. 1870s etching is gifted to Fairfield University Art Museum.
American Exhibition of the Week: "Spain: 500 Years of Spanish Painting from the Museums of Madrid" (June 23–September 16, 2018 ) at San Antonio Museum of Art in TX
European Exhibition of the Week: "Corita Kent: Get With the Action" now open at Ditchling Museum of Art and Craft (October 14, 2018) in the UK

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