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American Arts Quarterly

TRAC: “A Resurgence of Realism?”, Volume 31, #3, Summer 2014, pp 50-55

“In Plain Sight: The Art of Lois Dodd”, Volume 28, #4, Fall 2011, pp 42-48

“Aesthetic of Doubt,” Volume 27, #3, Summer 2010, pp. 19-26

Review essay of “Monuments; America’s History in Art and Memory”, by Judith Dupre, Volume 25, Number 3, Summer 2008, pp. 53-56

“Big Aesthetic River,” Volume 24, #4, Fall 2007, pp. 17-23

“Big Strokes: The Authentic Picture,” Volume 23: #2, Spring 2006, pp. 33-42

“Fairfield Porter, Classic Modernist,” Volume 22: #1, Winter 2005, pp. 23-30

“Beauty’s Embrace: Recent Christian Contributions to the Discussion of Her Character,” Vol. 20: #1, Winter 2003, pp. 9-16

 

Books and Culture

Conversation Pieces; Art Among Friends. A review of Through Your Eyes, Dialogues on the Paintings of Bruce Herman, November/December 2016, Volume 22, number 6,  pp 26-28.

“The Strange Place of Religion in Contemporary Art: A Symposium” (A feature article with four other contributors), May/June 2009, Volume 15, number 3, pp 20-25.

“The Critic Looks Inward,” a review of Robert Hughe’s Things I Didn’t Know, April 16, 2007, http://www.christianitytoday.com/books/features/bookwk/070416.html

 

Christian Scholars Review

Review of At Eternity’s Gate by Kathleen Powers Erickson. Volume XXIX: 3, Spring 2000, pp. 631-633.

Review of Pledges of Jubilee: Essays on the Arts and Culture in Honor of Calvin G. Seerveld, Volume XXVII:1, Fall 1997, pp. 135-137.

The Cresset: A Review of Literature, Art and Public Affairs

 

“Nature and Nature’s God in Late Twentieth-Century’s American Art,” Vol. LXI, #5, May 1998

 

Image: A Journal of the Arts and Religion

“Appropriation and Representation,” Fall 2016, Number 97

“Into the Art World”, Summer 2014, Number 81

“Troubling the Lexicon of Art and Faith”, Fall 2012, Number 75

“Desire and Longing: Image Artists after Twenty Years,” Winter 2008-2009, Number 60

“Spare Holy Places,” Spring 2006, number 49, pp. 17-23.

“The End of My Modernism,” Fall 2003, Number 40

“Living in the Borderlands,” Spring 2002, Number 34

“Tobi Kahn: A Profile,” Winter 2001, Number 33

“Stalking the Miraculous in the Wilds of Art,” Winter/Spring 1999, Number 22

“Wayne Forte: A Profile,” Spring 1996, Number 13

“We See Jesus?” an article on popular images of Jesus, Summer 1995, Number 10

“Edward Knippers: A Profile,” Spring 1993, Number 3

 

Mars Hill Audio

Discussion of the return of Beauty in art, September/October 2002

Discussion of the work of the painter Thomas Kincade, May/June 2001

Discussion of why artists have been attracted to abstraction, March/April 1996

Review of 1995 Whitney Biennial, Bruce Nauman retrospective at MOMA, and design exhibit “Mutant Materials,” May/June 1995

Discussion of Contemporary Manifestations of Surrealism, July/August 1994

Discussion of the British Realist Painter Lucien Freud, January/February 1994

Discussion of Nudity in Art and Advertising, November/December 1993

Discussion of the English Painter Francis Bacon, May 1992

 

The New Criterion

“An Evening at the University of the Arts” for Notebook Section, February, 1988

“Professor Kuspit comes to Rural Pennsylvania” for Notebook Section, June 1987