Few artists can weave together theological, cultural, and aesthetic values as gracefully as Janet McKenzie does. As with many great masters, she makes the most...
Arts & Culture
Explore Catholic arts and culture through critical reviews, interviews, and essays, on creativity, beauty, and faith.
Phasor Helado Negro (4AD, 2024) Phasor, the eighth studio album from electronic musician Roberto Carlos Lange (stage name Helado Negro), was born out of two...
Killers of the Flower Moon Directed by Martin Scorsese (Paramount, 2023) An “Incompetent”: one who is not legally permitted to freely wield one’s own resources...
Just as I began learning the rudiments of the sacred art of iconography, the man teaching me left for an extended European holiday. He embarked on his...
The inevitable analogy of Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Two as The Empire Strikes Back to Dune: Part One’s Star Wars was recently highlighted by Christopher...
Two new films, The Black Demon and Meg 2: The Trench, are the latest in a six-decade-long string of films about big, bad sharks noshing on people. Why does...
(R)evolutionary Hope By Kathleen Bonnette (Cascade Books, 2023) In his Confessions, St. Augustine famously asks, “What do I love when I love my God?” It seems...
From the era of the catacombs to the present day, Christians have a unique relationship to the art of the image due to the theology of divine incarnation. The...
Goodbye, Hotel Arkada Mary Lattimore (Ghostly International, 2023) Harpist Mary Lattimore’s new album Goodbye, Hotel Arkada is six tracks of spacious...
Savior Complex Directed by Jackie Jesko (HBO, 2023) Savior Complex showcases the work of Renee Bach, a homeschooled evangelical Christian from rural Virginia...
