Art

A basketball in watercolor

Are sports as worthy as the arts?

Sports | A few weeks ago I was a guest on Desiring God’s Behind the Blog podcast , where we talked about sports and Christianity. I was asked whether sports are of less value than the arts because of all the formulated rules…

Allison Streett
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Broken beauty

Lifestyle |  Christian sculptor aims to show the reality of pain and suffering—and hope

Jim Janknegt (on ladder) begins work on the <i>Touch the Word</i> mural along Austin's Sixth Street.

Innocents In Austin: A spark of Christ in the city

Culture |  A mural in the heart of South by Southwest’s music scene looks to share the power of Jesus with festivalgoers

Michelangelo’s <i>David-Apollo</i>

A tasty conversation

Art |  Conversation is a vague art. Why, sometimes, does it come so easy and taste so good? Why, other times, does it fizzle out into remarks about the weather? Last…

Behold, a box

Behold, a box

Art |  Last week a friend handed me a guitar box. He told me I could keep it if I wrote about what I did with it. Yesterday in a fit of inspiration I smashed out its…

The portrait

The portrait

Art |  I became a painter on an impulse my freshman year of college. My paintings reveal that I have tenacity rather than training. Recently my mother asked me to…

Trying to understand modern art

Art |  Someone will have to teach me about modern art. I was invited to an exhibition at an art center in Detroit, and I would like to describe it to you as best I…

Land of the Philistines

Land of the Philistines

Art |  Late last month, Kansas became the first and only state to defund "the arts." It began in February, when Gov. Sam Brownback eliminated the Kansas Arts…

A family amid the flood

A family amid the flood

Art |  As the Mississippi River slogs its way through Louisiana and Mississippi, we are reminded once again that too much water in the wrong place and at the wrong…

Creative avenues
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Creative avenues

Art |  Many a Christian art student may have talent, dedication-and no idea how the art industry works. That's where NYCAMS steps in

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Shadow minds

Art |  The very different works of two troubled 20th-century artists find a home at the American Folk Art Museum

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