A religious revival in a city of secular art | csmonitor.com

There's a new museum in New York - and it's not offering the usual New York City art scene fare. From a May 27, 2005, article by Carol Strickland in The Christian Science Monitor online:

NEW YORK – To an art world deeply skeptical of religious sentiment, the paintings displayed at the Museum of Biblical Art here must seem startling. The fact that this newly opened museum exists in New York at all signifies a change in the compass that orients how art is viewed.

"We're witnessing a worldwide religious revival in response to 9/11," says Norman Girardot, a folk-art specialist and professor of religious studies at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pa. Since the terrorist attacks, "We've all woken up and realized we have to take religion seriously."...

The article might not be what you'd expect from the lead. It has quotes from many different people, too, with various takes on this. (And should I laugh or cry that some museum folks are fretting out loud about possibly jeopardizing their tax-exempt status if they display religious art?)

Hat tip: Against a dictatorship of relativism