Tag: Art

The economy is not what ails us today. No, what ails Americans is what Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and their artistic spawn have wrought in the culture, starting 500 years ago. The Renaissance has dragged us all down.

Jon McNaughton Painting Shows Crippled Kids, Soldiers With Jesus; Lefty Journalists, Professors With Satan

With four scowling faces, 12 eyes, 12 arms, numerous weapons, skulls adorning the rim of his crown, severed heads dangling from his waist, human figures crushed beneath his feet and his consort Vajravarahi wrapped about him in rapturous congress, Chakrasamvara is a force to be reckoned with. He is one of many to be found in “Divine Demons: Wrathful Deities of Buddhist Art,” a small but captivating exhibition at the Norton Simon Museum.

Two eccentric British artists talk about why religion needs to be mocked and why identifying the inner freak is a positive experience in this video preview of their latest exhibition.

Plans by the Spanish Catholic Church to build a ‘mini Vatican’ in Madrid have left residents furious over the loss of one of the city’s best loved views.