I’ve published on religion and art for Jewish, Catholic, Mormon, and Arab American press, on topics ranging from idolatry and the Second Commandment to biblical interpretation.

My review of Melissa Müller and Monika Tatzkow, Lost Lives, Lost Art: Jewish Collectors, Nazi Art Theft, and the Quest for Justice (New York: Vendome Press, 2010. 256 pp.) and Peter C. Sutton, Reclaimed: Paintings from the Collection of Jacques Goudstikker (New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 2008. 224 pp.) appeared in Vol. 5, No. 1, 2011 (pp. 135-138) in the academic journal Images, published by Brill.

I presented on “Art History 2.0: A Religion and Art Blog as a Model for a New Critical Approach” on the panel “The Beam in Thine Own Eye: Criticism and Aggiornamento,” chaired by Andrea Ferber, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, at the Mid-America College Art Association Conference 2008 in Indianapolis, and on “Pinning the Kabbalistic Tail on [William] Blake” at the 6th annual Graduate Student Symposium in The History of Art in Oct. 2008 at the Katzen Arts Center at American University in Washington, D.C.

I was also part of the first annual meeting (2008) of the Contemporary Art Think Tank, “Resistance in Contemporary Art,” at the Phillips Collection Center for the Study of Modern Art in Washington, D.C.

In January of 2009, I moderated the panel Mormon Art: Definitions and Directions at a conference of Sunstone Magazine – Mormon Experience Scholarship Issues and Art. Here’s the panel blurb:

Spencer W. Kimball declared that the full story of Mormonism has yet to be written, painted, sculpted, or composed — and the task of Mormon artists is to accomplish this. How close are they? This panel gathers a group of Mormon artists in a variety of disciplines to address several questions: Does such a thing as Mormon art exist? If so, what is it? If not, should it exist? What’s the relationship between those two words? How is the faith of artists who are Mormon expressed in their work? Or is it? Should it be?

My blog on faith and art for Houston Chronicle can be viewed here, or an RSS feed can be viewed below

• New graphic novel illustrates a more vulnerable Goliath February 22, 2012
• In it’s church discipline, Mars Hill takes a page from the Old Testament February 18, 2012
• Departure of Byzantine Frescoes at the Menil is just, bittersweet, and humbling February 11, 2012
• Mormon Church rep: few TV shows, movies try to accurately depict LDS faith February 3, 2012
• An artistic look at the Chabad of Uptown’s new Torah dedication January 21, 2012

I also write on art for the Brooklyn, N.Y.-based The Jewish Press (see here), and was an artist in residence at the Makor gallery (of the 92nd Street Y) in Manhattan, where I exhibited five drawings on the Wandering Jew.