Art for the Glory of God

by Mark Bauerlein

Daniel McInerny joins in to discuss his new book, Beauty and Imitation: A Philosophical Reflection on the Arts.  Continue Reading »

10 Oct 2024

Building Back Better

by Liel Leibovitz

Once upon a time, in a faraway place called Brooklyn, there lived a museum director named Anne Pasternak. Because she was a member of America’s self-appointed cultural elite, she liked to travel to trendy places like Aspen and make sweeping statements about art and society. If we don’t . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Aug 2024

Modern Martyrs of Communism

by Salvatore J. Cordileone

Our failure to remember our heroes and martyrs of communism is having a dangerous effect on what the next generation knows. Continue Reading »

6 Mar 2024

Events Roundup—2.14.24

by Editors

Here are some events happening over the coming days that may interest our readers. Continue Reading »

14 Feb 2024

Events Roundup—10.27.23

by Editors

Events happening over the coming days that may interest our readers. Continue Reading »

27 Oct 2023

The Vocation of the Catholic Artist

by Cindy Hernandez Mathis

What began as largely individual experiences of the performances ended in fellowship, a deepening of the bonds of community. Continue Reading »

17 Oct 2023

The Greatest Catholic Opera

by Algis Valiunas

Opera has traditionally had little interest in Christian orthodoxy. So when composer Francis Poulenc wrote his masterpiece, Dialogues des Carmélites, the work’s celebration of heroic piety defied the secular spirit of the art form. Continue Reading »

14 Jul 2023

Existential Slapstick in The Banshees of Inisherin

by John Waters

The idiotic, self-devouring cultural dialectic of Ireland since independence has ensured that its own damaged iconographies have blocked access to certain elements of the past, and therefore stymied present artists.  Continue Reading »

3 Feb 2023

Events Roundup—10.27.23

by Editors

Events happening over the coming days that may interest our readers. Continue Reading »

27 Oct 2022

The Man Who Painted the Reformation

by Jane Coombs

As humanists sought the truth by mastering ancient languages, and reformers by printing the Gospels in vernacular ones, Holbein pursued the truth by recording his subjects—both Protestants and Catholics—in honest, startling detail. Continue Reading »

28 Feb 2022