artists
Hilma af Klint’s new ways of seeing
Years before Kandinsky, a Swedish woman created magnificent abstract paintings.
Peter Spier’s picture books praise the world
The Holocaust survivor’s response to suffering was to create joyful children’s books.
How Paterson sidesteps the clichés embraced by La La Land
Escapism can be delightful. But artistic creation also uses the fodder of daily life.
Revived by the arts
"Revival" usually implies a preacher with great oratory skills. Nashville's Downtown Presbyterian stokes something different.
Stand and deliver: Performers in the pulpit
At the annual banquet of the University of Chicago Divinity School, first-year student Rebecca Anderson knocks ’em dead with a stand-up comedy routine. But then she should: she was previously a stand-up comic. “When I tell people here I grew up in a fundamentalist family, they treat me like I just got out of a POW camp. 'Oh my God,' they say, 'Are you OK?'"