#religious-imagery

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fromVulture
2 weeks ago

Rosalia Shatters All Expectations With Lux

Rosalía's fourth album blends religious imagery, personal heartbreak, and theatrical music, transforming pop into cathedral-like, provocative art that mixes piety, delusion, and desire.
Philosophy
fromOpen Culture
1 month ago

Why Real Biblical Angels Are Creepy, Beastly, and Hardly Angelic

Biblical angels often appear terrifying, violent, and unlike the gentle, winged figures common in modern imagery.
fromPortland Mercury
2 months ago

TBA Review: Queer Mysticism Meets Telenovela in Inebria Me

At the pinnacle of San Cha's opera Inebria me, an apparition in white emerged: Esperanza (Kyle Kidd), angelic and blood-smeared, clutching a red rose. Dolores (San Cha, the show's librettist and composer) gazed at the spirit, her expression a blend of awe and longing, the unraveling newlywed finally alight with something beyond grief. Her encounter with Esperanza sparked a radical, gender-free religious fervor, one of ecstasy and drama, detached from self-flagellation or duty.
LGBT
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