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Making Crosses, Crossing Borders: The Performance of Mourning, the Power of Ghosts, and the Politics of Countermemory in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
Mediations | Barbara Sostaita
Art as a form of memory and protest at the Mexico-US border
Julian Voss-Andreae, Angel of the West
Essays | Jonathan Schorsch
Transhumanism and biological angels
The Politics of (Mere) Presence: The Islamic Center of Murfreesboro, Tennessee
Essays | Guy Jordan
Banality of modern architecture and Islam in America
From Illuminated Rumi to the Green Barn: The Art of Sufism in America
Object Narratives | M. Shobhana Xavier
American Sufi art
Art That Breathes: Lewis deSoto’s Paranirvana (self-portrait)
Essays | Anya Montiel
Buddhism in modern art
The rectangular swaths of color on a color field painting do not extend to the end of the canvas. A red stripe at the center lies below a larger section of yellow and above a hazy rectangle of orange.
Mark Rothko, No. 5/No. 22
Object Narratives | Andrea Pappas
Rothko references the Crucifixion
A dark-skinned man wearing a white t-shirt holds a large, broken mortar transformed into an art object. It is painted orange with a large eye depicted at center. Other smaller eyes cover the object's surface. Neat, white text also covers the piece.
Kwame "Almighty" Akoto, The Supernatural Eyes of God
Object Narratives | Birgit Meyer
All-seeing eyes of God
Holland Cotter: An Art Critic on Art and Religion
Conversations | Interviewed by Ashley Makar
An art critic's perspective
A surreal painting depicts a frozen body of water splintered into ice sheets. Each is a platform for figures who skate, receive x-rays, or lie in hospital beds. Humanoid shapes in the background are sliced and dripping blood. Pills float among the water.
Hospital
Material Object | Maker: Frank C Moore
Art and the AIDS crisis
A painting depicts a group of smiling people of different ages and races gathered around a set table. An older light-skinned woman brings a platter heaped with pills and needles to the table. A dark-skinned man looks over her shoulder at the platter.
Freedom to Share
Material Object | Maker: Frank C Moore
Another work related to art and the AIDs crisis
Two light-skinned men hold up a banner at a protest. It reads, "WE OCCUPY." The letters of WE are filled with sillhouettes of protesters. The letters of OCCUPY are checkered and interspersed with photos of Manhattan and nuclear explosions.
Day 20 Occupy Wall Street, 10/5/2011
Material Object | Maker: David Shankbone
Occupy Wall Street posters
A painting depicts a surreal landscape overun with hills of pills, vials of blood, patients in hospital beds, lab rats, a human with a rat tail, and gold coins. A man in a lab coat walks across the scene, which is labelled at the bottom "WIZARD."
Wizard
Material Object | Maker: Frank C Moore
Modern art and AIDs
A painting shows a hospital bed half-submerged in water and bathed in a blue glow. A blood bag IV standing next to the bed hangs down into the water. Snowflakes and leaves trickle onto the bed.
Patient
Material Object | Maker: Frank C Moore
Modern art and AIDs
Gordon Parks, Dresser in the bedroom of Mrs. Ella Watson, a government charwoman
Object Narratives | Sally M. Promey
Dresser in the bedroom of Mrs. Ella Watson, a government charwoman
Material Object | Maker: Gordon Parks | Tradition: Verbycke Spiritual Church
Byzantine Fresco Chapel
Material Object | Maker: François de Menil | Tradition: Orthodox
François de Menil's chapel to house the recovered Byzantine frescoes during their stay in Houston
Byzantine Frescoes, Reinstallation Concept
Material Object | Maker: François de Menil | Tradition: Orthodox
de Menil's concept for reinstalling the frescoes
Martin Puryear, Desire
Essays | Bryan Wolf
Bryan Wolf on artist Martin Puryear's "uncanny" sculptures
Night Watch
Material Object | Maker: Martin Puryear
Desire
Material Object | Maker: Martin Puryear
The Load
Material Object | Maker: Martin Puryear
In an abstract painting, geometric planes of white, navy, and blue travel back deep into the upper left quadrant of the work.
Temptation of St. Anthony
Material Object | Maker: John Covert
Por La Raza Mural Cycle at the Social and Behavioral Health Services Department of the La Fe Clinic (Centro de Salud Familiar La Fe Inc.)
Material Object | Tradition: Catholic
Public art/mural cycle/Mexico-US border
Basílica i Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Família, Barcelona (Basilica of the Holy Family, Barcelona)
Material Object | Maker: Antoni Gaudí | Tradition: Roman Catholic
Religious architecture--Catholic--Gaudi
A black and white photo depicts a dark-skinned woman in a white veil cradling a swaddled baby close to her chest. She folds her hands in her lap and casts her eyes down. A nativity star is visible in the righthand corner of the photo.
James Latimer Allen, Madonna and Child
Object Narratives | Camara Dia Holloway
Camara Dia Holloway on modern black madonnas
A black and white photo depicts a dark-skinned woman in a white veil cradling a swaddled baby close to her chest. She folds her hands in her lap and casts her eyes down. A nativity star is visible in the righthand corner of the photo.
Madonna and Child
Material Object | Maker: James L. Allen | Tradition: Protestant
Photography, black madonna
The Brown Madonna
Material Object | Maker: Winold Reiss | Tradition: Christian
Brown madonna
A bright white temple is located in the middle of a cityscape. It has two main spires with four smaller spires at the base of both.
San Diego Mormon Temple
Material Object | Tradition: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon)
Modern religious architecture--Mormon
San Jerónimo Costumbres y Riquezas del Distrito Ecológico del Cusco (San Jerónimo Customs and Riches of the Cuzco Ecological District)
Material Object | Maker: Luz Fabiola Vidal Vivanco | Tradition: Roman Catholic
Public art/mural/Peru
Georgia O’Keeffe, Black Cross with Stars and Blue
Object Narratives | Jeffrey Richmond-Moll
Jeffrey Richmond-Moll discusses Georgia O'Keeffe's cross paintings and Penitente brotherhoods
Black Cross with Stars and Blue
Material Object | Maker: Georgia O'Keeffe
Cross with Red Sky (Black Cross with Red Sky)
Material Object | Maker: Georgia O'Keeffe
Grey Cross with Blue
Material Object | Maker: Georgia O'Keeffe