The Madonna In Art

As the Material Girl, Eva Perón inEvita, and most recently, queen of the disco floor, Madonna's transformations and assumed identities keep her fans wanting more. She has inspired ...

Everyone wanted Madonna’s Erotica to be scandalous, even pornographic. In the midst of the early 1990s culture wars, conservatives wanted it to be proof of the decline of family va...

Abstract “Mary is Black.” Immaculate Misconceptions: A Black Mariology begins with this claim to ground how Christian-colonial imaginaries of salvation and identity ...

Abstract This book explores a notable if unlikely undercurrent of interest in Mary as mythical Madonna that has persisted in American life and letters from fairly...

A readable guide to the art of looking at art. There’s an art to viewing art. A sizable portion of the population regards art with varying degrees of reverence, bewilderm...

What gives beauty such fascinating power? Why is beauty so easy to recognize but so hard to define? Across cultures and continents and over the centuries the standards of beauty ha...

Leading international artists and art educators consider the challenges of art education in today's dramatically changed art world. The last explosive change in art ...

Romanticized notions of how one becomes an “artist” have long been questioned, so why do we still fetishize them in popular culture, turning a blind eye to the politics of exclusio...