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Posted by Rebecca Teti in Reviews on Wednesday, April 20, 2011 9:00 AM
Many Catholic bloggers have noted the media tendency to exploit the seasons of Lent & Easter with stories loosely about Christianity.
These tend to be negative because what would be new or sexy about affirming the truth of the story?
So it is that Lent always brings us a rash of dubious archaeological “discoveries” (this year it’s the nails of the crucifixion, but remember the bones of Jesus & the Gospel of Judas of yesteryear?).
Time & Newsweek trot out another stale “Whither Christianity?” essay as an excuse to run striking religious cover art during Holy Week. Many papers tell the only story about the Church that seems newsworthy: tales of the fallen or disaffected.
I’m not certain this reflects hostility to faith so much as good old-fashioned commercialism. It sells.
It’s kind of a back-handed compliment to the centrality of Christianity to culture, even today. No one bothers to run Baha’i or Hindu stories as those religions’ high holy days approach. Not enough interest. But people are interested in Christianity, in spite of everything.
Nevertheless, it’s nice to reflect occasionally on the positive contributions of Christianity to civilization, to appreciate the fruits of talent joined to an imagination suffused with grace, and to contemplate the distinction—even in pop culture—between a culture of life that seeks to build and create versus a culture of death, which detracts, mocks and uses.
Here are two museum exhibits of interest in that regard.
The Museum of Biblical Art in New York has what looks to be a splendid exploration of the Man of Sorrows motif in art.
You can see some of the show in slides here, and here’s a review of the exhibition.
The Walters Museum in Baltimore, meanwhile, is currently showing a collection of Medieval relics and reliquaries.
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Our parish commission new stations of the cross. They were installed last year. They’re similar to the picture you posted. If you’re interested, here is the link to our online stations with the pictures of our beautiful art work.
http://tiny.cc/kphvc
Thanks, Kathy! I changed your link because the one you left wasn’t registering properly for some reason. It’s lovely to see worthy Christian art starting to crop up again—and nice to hear about the Church commissioning it!
You have to scroll around to see them, but the Archbolds have been highlighting another new stations at their site this Lent. Here’s one: http://www.creativeminorityreport.com/2011/04/station-6-from-leonard-porter.html
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