The migration of David Reincarnated

Louis Carreon's latest major work is an 8 ft high, 4,000 lb. contemporary reworking of Bernini’s David in marble, with David dressed for the streets of LA.

This sculpture was created in Mexico and will shortly be brought across the border into the US to find it's initial resting place; a journey also made by many migrants. Carreon's David Reincarnated, through its journey to the US,D will highlight the experiences and issues faced by contemporary migrants while also reminding of the extent to which David experienced banishment, exile and migration.

The journey of David Reincarnated will be documented and can be followed on the instagram accounts of Carreon and his manager Benjamin Greenfield. Their posts will also be "accompanied by an unconventional armament of academic, curatorial and theological expertise and insights from: Dr Ori Soltes, Professor Georgetown University, Professor Bryan Keene, Manuscript Curator Getty Museum" and myself, "all of whom have written essays about Louis' David Reincarnated".

To read more about Carreon's work and David Reincarnated see my interview with the artist for Artlyst and the recent Forbes article on his work.

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Jerry Garcia Band - Señor (Tales of Yankee Power).

Why does the Church so rarely value and nurture the artists and prophets found in its midst?

Why does the Church so rarely value and nurture the artists and prophets found in its midst? 

That is a question which underlies the exhibition, at Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft, of Corita Kent’s vibrant, passionate, wry, colourful, compassionate, and contextually relevant art. 

Her art generated a string of correspondence from the Archbishop of Los Angeles that placed ever more stringent constraints on her art and teaching. Copies of that correspondence are displayed at the end of this most marvellous of exhibitions, leading me to raise this question in my exhibition review for Church Times:

'A wonderful piece of contextualised mission was brought to a premature end by the Archbishop’s inability to understand, combined with his inability to resist the local voices of complaint. Sister Corita was a true pioneer in, and heroine of, the 20th-century Church. This exhibition cannot be commended too highly.'

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Aaron Rose - Become A Microscope (Extract).