Religion, Science and Art at 82nd & Fifth

The painting is `Madonna and Child with Angels (ca. 1455 - 1460), by Antonio Rossellino.

Luke Syson

Luke Syson doesn't so much equate `Faith with religion, as he does with experience of, and belief in, transcendence, that is, going beyond ordinary life or reality.

`Guitar (1937) is by Hermann Hauser.

Jerry Kerr Dobney

Hauser created such beautiful art, amid the horrific Zeitgeist of Nazism.  Jerry Kerr Dobney wonders about that, and his `String Theory, perhaps a pun on a conceptual framework in physics, speaks to this wondering.

Fashion concept `No. 13 [Collection] (spring/summer 1999), by Alexander McQueen.  

Andrew Bolton

This is fascinating concept, and Andrew Bolton's impassioned talk `Extreme Fashion helps to crystallize my notion that fashion is art.