Sunday, August 14, 2005
ART AND RELIGION IN TANDEM
The new trend in using worship space is to use it for artistic productions as well as religious events. The art exhibit at Our Lady of the Angels, blogged below, is one example. An art exhibit at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine is another. Paul Winter's Missa Gaia is a musical event of the same sort.
A publication of The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2005-2006 Season, arrived in the mail this weekend. The Museum has events scheduled at Trinity Cathedral, at Pilgrim Congregational Church, at Plymouth Church of Shaker Heights, at The Shrine Church of St. Stanislaus (Polish Roman Catholic Church that is quite beautiful in the picture), at The Temple-Tifereth Israel, at First Baptist Church of Greater Cleveland, and at Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church. None of these events are free.
Does Canon Law accommodate a concert in a Catholic Church that is given for the benefit of the local arts institution? Frankly, I wouldn't think it does.
