Tag: Brad Miner

What Is Beautiful? What Is Ugly?

In the Mile End Road, opposite to the London Hospital, there was . . . a vacant greengrocer’s which was to let. The whole of the front of the shop, with the exception of the door, was hidden by a hanging sheet of canvas on which was the…

‘Joan of Arc’: My Favorite Painting

Many readers know of my passion for art, especially painting. I’m particularly fond of the work of the great Catholic artists Caravaggio, Rubens, and Vermeer, and some examples of their work are in the collection of my favorite museum, the…

An ‘Odyssey’ for Our Time

I don’t often comment on films or – truth be told – usually care much about them. I leave that to those who do care and are much better at it. (See under: Miner, Brad.) Most movies seem, to me, to have a greater cultural impact than they…

Five for the Fourth – The Catholic Thing

Outright Love for This Land Robert Royal In Magnifica humanitas, Pope Leo invokes the Biblical story of Nehemiah rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem as a poignant alternative to the Tower of Babel’s effort to reach Heaven without God. It’s a good…

Raphael at New York’s MET

The current show at America’s greatest museum, Raphael: Sublime Poetry, will run through June 28th of this year. As with most major exhibits at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, curators have gathered works by the artist from museums around the…