What does it mean to be alive?
Excess Baggage
Can we still enjoy vacation destinations when we know their fraught histories?
Seeing Mrs. Riddle
Can looking with love change how we see others . . . and ourselves?
FORUM: What Does Higher Education Need Now? Part Two
This is one crisis that must not go to waste
Redemptive Art Meets Redemptive Reading: A Conversation
The good, true, and beautiful are here before us—if we have eyes to see
Celebrating the book launch of Current contributing editor Elissa Yukiko Weichbrodt: Redeeming Vision
Today is book launch day for Current Contributing Editor, Elissa Yukiko Weichbrodt. Redeeming Vision: A Christian Guide to Looking at and Learning from Art, is now out from Baker Academic. Below, Dr. Weichbrodt tells us about her aims in writing […]
Moving Images
What can history teach us about pictures of violated Black bodies?Â
Laughter in the Museum
Giggling at art history should be part of the point
Seeing Bathsheba
There’s more art history than you realize in your old children’s Bibles
The Massacre of the Innocents
Can art of the past help us better grieve the present?
Celebrating the Humanity of Edmonia Lewis
We do this American artist a disservice by failing to acknowledge her contradictions
Angels From Another Angle
Henry Ossawa Tanner’s Angels Appearing Before Shepherds urges us to see the familiar anew
From Whore to Helpmate
Katie Luther went from being depicted as a vile prostitute to a happy homemaker. Why does that matter?
Museums Matter
Art museums are reopening. Here’s why you should visit one.
A Second Glance
A hidden history lurks in the images featured in PBS’s The Black Church. Why didn’t its creators tell it?