In Image and Spirit, author and artist Karen Stone recounts comments she overheard in a modern art museum one November day
Art
Jo Ann Heydron 7-01-2003
I avoid movies with car chases and wish more television heroes were not both handsome and single. In my reading, however, I tend to be more open-minded.
Rose Marie Berger 7-01-2003
The Motor City may never lack for drama, but until the Mosaic Youth Theatre came along there were few opportunities for young people to express themselves on stage.
Karen E. Aldrich 7-01-2003
THANK YOU, Don Michael Hudson, for an intelligent, well-thought-through article on the arts and the Christian's freedom toward them
Rose Marie Berger, 5-01-2003
For years activists have called attention to the plight of the Palestinians through protests, teach-ins, and seminars.
Rose Marie Berger 5-01-2003
The Gallery at the American Bible Society in New York City recently presented "Reflections on Glass: 20th Century Stained Glass in American Art and Architecture."
Rose Marie Berger, 5-01-2003
For too long civic participation in the arts has been viewed as the domain of the wealthy, but a new study by the Urban Institute suggests otherwise.
Rose Marie Berger, Jodi Hochstedler 7-01-2002
Worshippers at St. Mary's Episcopal Cathedral, in Glasgow, Scotland, are now sharing pews with Scotland's most avant-garde artists.
Linda-Marie Delloff 3-01-2001
A national study documents what many congregations already knew—that the arts are good for faith, and faith can be good for the arts.
Rose Marie Berger 3-01-2001
Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church's new building demonstrates how architecture can incarnate the history, strength, and spirit of a people.
Larry Bellinger 1-01-2001
"Art has the power to heal spiritual, emotional, and physical brokenness."
Julie Polter 7-01-2000
Artist Barry Moser's new illustrated Bible shows that the people of scripture---and books themselves---are very much alive.
Rose Marie Berger 9-01-1999
The spiritual vision of Vincent Van Gogh, Georgia O'Keefe, and Andy Warhol.
Scott Robinson 7-01-1998
Rita Dove is a woman who does not back down from unexplored territory. She is the youngest Poet Laureate in U.S. history; she is also the first African American to be so named. She is the author of several books of poetry, including The Darker Face of the Earth (1994), Mother Love: Poems (1995), and Museum (1997). Composer and free-lance writer Scott Robinson interviewed Dove while she was in Minneapolis preparing for a vocal performance with the Plymouth Music Series.
—The Editors
Let us honor the lost, the snatched, the relinquished,
those vanquished by glory, muted by shame.
Stand up in the silence they’ve left and listen:
those absent ones, unknown and unnamed—
remember!
—Rita Dove, from "Umoja—Each One of Us Counts"
‘‘I was very aware of the public nature of the piece," says Rita Dove of her poem "Umoja," "and I wanted it to have a certain majesty, and a certain pageantry." Commissioned for the Atlanta Centennial Cultural Olympics in 1996, and set to music by composer Alvin Singleton, "Umoja" is one of a number of Dove’s poems written for very public occasions.
A musician herself, Dove is keenly aware of the interplay of music and poetic word. But while poetry is most often a private undertaking, read by individuals in books or magazines, music-making is, by its nature, a public act. And Rita Dove, both in her enthusiasm for music and in her educational outreach—which emphasizes the music inherent in poetry itself—is a public kind of poet.