In The Resolution of the Suspect, photographer Miki Kratsman builds on the reliquary nature and the transitive qualities of the carte-de-visite, creating a diptych: the historic image on one page of the centerfold and his own photograph of the bloody garment of a single unnamed Palestinian martyr on the other.

In 1929, on her first visit to New Mexico, the American artist Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986) observed the animate potential of the region’s religious material culture.

A remarkable reliquary helps us imagine new possibilities around the earliest English settlement in North America.

What does a virtual meditation cushion tell us about material and visual cultures of religion?

The world of handmade objects and manual labor turns strange in Puryear's Desire, and in this way, the ordinary becomes—here is list of options, choose one—estranged, uncanny, defamiliarized.

The objects on display in this collection stitch together what I call the “communion of shadows” that began with the invention of photography in the early nineteenth century.