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Coronavirus sculptures by Arlington artist explore intersection of danger and beauty

The sculptures seem to be inspired by the latest breaking news headlines. A figure in a stark white face mask. A giant virus cell mutating into a tentacled sea creature that morphs back into a virus — or maybe it’s a planet covered in protrusions that resemble nuclear smokestacks.

5/21/20

Catholic Herald Staff Writer

Pandemic inspires artist to create icon of Christ as healer

5/12/20

By MICHELLE MARTIN | Catholic News Service

Canadian artist who brought Gospel values to children dies of COVID-19

French Canadian artist Claude Lafortune, who hosted children's programs based on the Gospel on national television, died of COVID-19 April 19. He was 83.

5/4/20

By PHILIPPE VAILLANCOURT | Catholic News Service
Watch 'Revolution of the Heart: The Dorothy Day Story' online

Complicated, flawed, often misunderstood and as controversial as she was beloved, Dorothy Day (1897-1980), co-founder of the Catholic Worker Movement, is the subject of the documentary "Revolution of the Heart: The Dorothy Day Story." Wonderfully evocative and challenging, the independently produced hourlong film is currently available at pbs.org as part of MPT presents, which shows topical programs from independent producers. Viewers should also consult their local listings for broadcast times.More

4/1/20

By CHRIS BYRD | Catholic News Service

Catholic art masterpieces you can see from home

The museums are closed, and travel has been stopped due to the coronavirus pandemic. But the experience of great works of art that expand our cultural horizons and deepen our faith is not something we need to deny ourselves in this Lenten period when we are mostly stuck at home or laboring on the front lines of the health care system. Thanks to the internet, advances in photography and the farsighted efforts of some great museums, videos are available that can bring us close to masterpieces.More

4/1/20

By NORA HAMERMAN | For the Catholic Herald

Falls Church students find aboriginal art is instructive, healing

As the world watched news accounts of Australian bushfires engulfing more than 12 million acres of land from the end of 2019 into early 2020, sixth-graders at St. James Catholic School in Falls Church were studying aboriginal Australians in social studies class with Maureen St. Pierre, and creating pre-language symbolic art with teacher Daniela Shumate.More

3/2/20

Stacy Rausch | Catholic Herald Production Coordinator

‘A Thousand Splendid Suns’

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2/11/20

Stacy Rausch | Catholic Herald Production Coordinator

Painted prayers: Reston mural celebrates Salesian spirituality

For Brother Michael O’Neill McGrath, painting is prayer. For years, the artist and author, known as “Brother Mickey,” has been sharing his images of saints and their famous sayings in books and retreats, as well as on prayerful greeting cards illuminated with brightly colored birds and flowers.More

2/5/20

Leslie Miller | Special to the Catholic Herald

Christ at center of Spanish sculptor’s art

For the first time, the work of celebrated Spanish sculptor Alonso Berruguete is being featured at the National Gallery of Art in Washington. More

1/10/20

By NORA HAMERMAN | For the Catholic Herald

‘The most beautiful head of the Savior’

When Andrea del Verrocchio’s bronze sculpture of “Christ and St. Thomas” was installed in its niche overlooking a busy street in Florence in 1483, it so awed the Florentines that one writer hailed it as “the most beautiful head of the Savior ever made.” More

11/7/19

By NORA HAMERMAN | For the Catholic Herald

Churches that point to God

Fr. Planty speaks about the elements that give beauty to sacred architecture.More

8/28/19

Zoey Maraist | Catholic Herald Staff Writer

New Mexico’s St. Kateri Tekakwitha Shrine honors patron saint of Native Americans

A new shrine in Gallup, N.M., being dedicated to St. Kateri Tekakwitha, was designed by local Catholic architect Erik Bootsma.More

8/22/19

Stacy Rausch | Catholic Herald Production Coordinator

A photographic and artistic adventure in Italy

Catholic Herald Production Coordinator Stacy Rausch took a solo trip through the Italian countryside - making art and photographing her experiences in Rome, Ischia di Castro, Orvieto, Assisi and Florence.More

7/26/19

Stacy Rausch | Catholic Herald Production Coordinator

Da Vinci's 'St. Jerome' painting on loan to the Met

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is marking the 500th anniversary of the death of Leonardo da Vinci with a painting by the artist that will draw crowds but also pay solemn tribute to the larger-than-life Italian Renaissance painter, architect and inventor.More

7/17/19

By Carol Zimmermann | Catholic News Service

Our Lady inspires Fairfax woman to pick up painting

The Korean-American grandmother of 13 has taken up not only Byzantine iconography but oriental-style painting, too. More

7/8/19

Zoey Maraist | Catholic Herald Staff Writer

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