The Unfinished Cathedral
By Editorial Issue 101
The God who risked appearing in the flesh is the same God who leaves it to artists to bear witness.
Read MoreWeb Exclusive: A Conversation with Mohammed Ali (a.k.a. Aerosol Arabic)
By Interview Issue 89
Issue 89 features the work of graffiti and installation artist Mohammed Ali, whose murals appear in cities all over the world, from his native Birmingham to Melbourne, Dubai, and Kuala Lumpur. He also performs collaboratively with musicians and poets. In the accompanying essay, George Dardess describes the way Ali sees his work as part of…
Read MoreIntruding Upon the Timeless
By Essay Issue 1
St. Thomas called art “reason in making.” This is a very cold and very beautiful definition, and if it is unpopular today, this is because reason has lost ground among us. As grace and nature have been separated, so imagination and reason have been separated, and this always means an end to art. The artist…
Read MoreConvergences
By Essay Issue 3
WHEN Harold and I brought out the first pilot issue of Image exactly four years ago, we knew that we had undertaken a quixotic task. The “culture wars” were then at their height. The relationship between art and religion was front page news—but only because Senator Jesse Helms and the Rev. Donald Wildmon were trading…
Read MoreAllegorical Strays: The Art and Craft of James Mellick
By Essay Issue 79
AS YOU ARE A SAVVY and a dedicated reader, here for your delectation is a quick quiz in the pestering style of the SAT analogy, but more akin in spirit to Walker Percy’s Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book. If critics from the pre-modern period considered craft to be the opposite of art (craft vs.…
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