The Empire State Building has once again lost its claim to being New York City’s tallest tower (having been eclipsed several times in the “world’s tallest” category). With 100 floors complete and counting, the Freedom Tower, aka 1 World Trade Center, has passed the venerable Art Deco landmark recently and…  [more]

Last week, Edvard Munch's 1895 pastel version of The Scream went under the gavel at Sotheby’s to set a new record as the most expensive piece of art ever sold at auction. One of our culture’s most recognizable and reproduced images, it rivals even the Mona Lisa for the irreverent…  [more]

Something of an iconoclast in the Christian art scene – he first gained national attention in the 1980s as a satirical Christian pop singer – director Steve Taylor was a fitting choice to direct the film version of Don Miller’s essay collection Blue Like Jazz. Just as the book seeks…  [more]

The artist known as Christo is in the news again, with an expensive proposal to “wrap” almost six miles of the Arkansas River in Colorado. The project is seeking final environmental approvals, but seems likely to go ahead, over the objections of some local environmental groups. Reactions to Christo’s projects…  [more]

It’s not hard to imagine what the average Christian will think when they learn that a Swiss-born British writer wants to construct a tower in London as a monument to atheism. For most Christians, the initial response will be shock, followed soon by outrage. Why, these militant atheists just don’t…  [more]