Arts & Culture

Explore Catholic arts and culture through critical reviews, interviews, and essays, on creativity, beauty, and faith.

Electric Dirt

Levon Helm (Vanguard Records, 2009) Beginning in 1969, Levon Helm, with his mates in The Band, helped save rock and roll from psychedelia and all its pomps. In...

Up

Directed by Pete Docter (Pixar, 2009) Ask anybody under 30 and they will tell you that Pixar is the animation studio. But the company that has stunned us with...

An Altar in the World

By Barbara Brown Taylor (HarperOne, 2009)   "If I had a dollar for every time I heard someone say ‘I am spiritual but not religious,' then...

The Reader

Directed by Stephen Daldry (The Weinstein Co., 2008) In traditional coming-of-age tales, sexuality opens up new worlds for a young man, and the first affair...

Playing for change

Various Artists (Hear Music, 2009) And they do mean various! This CD/DVD release includes artists from India to Ireland, South Africa to Russia, Israel to...

Sunshine Cleaning

Directed by Christine Jeffs and Megan Holley (Overture Films, 2009) Christine Jeffs and Megan Holley's touching film about a spunky but dysfunctional...