Whether we realize it or not, at every moment we stand devoted to something—something which we cherish above all others. It may be money, a job, a person, an ideal, or our own comfort, but whatever it ...

Religion has never been simple in the United States, and there's a lot more to the stories we learned in school. Objects Of Devotion: Tracing Religion In Early America With guest host Noel King. There ...

This past semester, the students in Art History seminar “Displaying Devotion” considered issues raised by the medieval alabasters in Object of Devotion.The objects chosen reveal that devotion is a ...

Alabaster production during the Middle Ages centered on the making and selling of finely decorated, gilded and colored sculpture to churches, nobles, and owners of private chapels. More common ...

Join Menil curator Kristina Van Dyke and Rice associate professor of art history Linda Neagley as they discuss the relationship between art and the divine in conjunction with the exhibition, Objects ...

Recently opened at The Menil Collection, Objects of Devotion examines the power of objects and our relationship to them. Not just objects in general, of course. We’re talking rare, priceless objects ...

Inherent devotion resides within us all. I use the word devotion with the acceptance of its weighty connotation, and so eschew a lighter term — commitment, for example — to illustrate the point more ...