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The Gallery at the was established in 1998 as an exhibition space dedicated solely to art inspired by the Bible. The Gallery鈥檚 exhibitions ranged from the history of the Holy Land to 20th-century Guatemalan and Peruvian folk art; from Romanov icons to contemporary Biblical art; and from medieval and Renaissance sculpture to African-American quilts.

The gallery was succeeded in May 2005 by the . Located in New York City's Columbus Circle, MOBIA鈥檚 mission was to 鈥渃elebrate and interpret art inspired by the Bible and its cultural legacy in Jewish and Christian traditions through exhibitions, education and scholarship.鈥� MOBIA closed in 2015.

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The was founded in 2005 on the Water Tower Campus of Loyola University Chicago. LUMA is located on the Magnificent Mile in Lewis Towers, a historic 1926 Gothic Revival building. According to its mission statement, LUMA 鈥渞eflects the University鈥檚 Jesuit identity and is dedicated to helping people of all creeds to explore their faith and spiritual quest. . . .  The Museum interprets and displays the University鈥檚 medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque collection, known as the Martin D'Arcy Collection, other museum permanent collections, and rotating exhibitions.鈥�

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Heller refers to two exhibitions. The first, The Body of Christ in the Art of Europe and New Spain, 1150-1800, was held in 1997 at the . Find a copy of the accompanying catalog .

The second was held at the , in 2000. Curated by Neil MacGregor and titled The Image of Christ, it explored works in the National Gallery鈥檚 own collection and was accompanied by a . MacGregor hosted a related BBC television series titled 鈥淪eeing Salvation,鈥� also broadcast in 2000 and accompanied by a .

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The is a consortium of nine member schools in Berkeley, California. Faculty members such as John Dillenberger, Jane Daggett Dillenberger, and Peter Selz, established a pioneering program that emphasized the interdisciplinary study of faith traditions and the arts.

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, was an exhibition organized in 1985 by Thomas Sokolowski for the of New York University. Brief discussions of the exhibition can be found online at and .

was founded in 1982 by Jeanette Ingberman and Papo Colo as an interdisciplinary cultural center that presented innovative exhibitions, films and performances. Exit Art emphasized contemporary issues and ideas experimental forms of expression and emerging, under-recognized, mid-career and international artists. Exit Art closed on May 31, 2012.

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The Vatican Collections: The Papacy in Art was shown at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1982. The accompanying catalog can be . Additional information about the papacy, the Vatican, and art can be explored .

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Andy Warhol鈥檚 floating Silver Clouds (1966) were shown at MOCRA in 2001, 2002, and 2006, and shown at LUMA in 2008.

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Heller is likely referring to the exhibition The Word on the Street: The Photography of Larry Racioppo.

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The recognition that today's audiences often need help decoding religious art of the past was directly addressed by the exhibition The Image of Christ and the 鈥淪eeing Salvation鈥� series. See discussion at 6:45 above.

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MOCRA鈥檚 mission statement reads,

天美传媒制片厂鈥檚 Museum of Contemporary Religious Art is the first museum to bring an interfaith focus to contemporary art.

Through exhibitions, collections and educational programs, MOCRA highlights and explore the ways contemporary visual artists engage the religious and spiritual dimensions. MOCRA serves the diverse 天美传媒制片厂 community, and the wider public, by facilitating personal discovery, experience, and inspiration, while contributing to a wider culture of interfaith encounter and dialogue.

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The exhibition Art of the Invisible was presented in 1977 at Bede Gallery, in Jarrow, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom. It was later staged in at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London as The Art of the Invisible: the spiritual in art - the art of the spiritual. It included works by William Blake, Piet Mondrian and Wassily Kandinsky, among others. (Coincidentally, an unrelated exhibition titled Invisible: Art about the Unseen, 1957鈥�2012 was presented at the Hayward Gallery, London, in 2012. Read a .

was mounted at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) in 1986. The exhibition sought to show how one current in abstract art that thrived in the early twentieth century鈥攃oncern for the spiritual, including references to popular belief systems such as Theosophy and Rosicrucianism鈥攚as eclipsed but not completely extinguished. 

(1878鈥�1935) was a Russian painter, designer, and art theoretician, and a leading pioneer of abstract art. He is perhaps best known for the development of a style of severe geometric abstraction he called .

(1866鈥�1944), like Malevich, was born in Russia, but worked primarily outside of his homeland. He was a painter, printmaker, stage designer, decorative artist and theorist, and was a central figure in the transition from representational to abstract art. In 1911, Kandinsky published a theoretical treatise titled (also translated as On the Spiritual in Art). His concerns range beyond the purely visual to encompass music and poetry; among the concepts he proposes is a double effect of color: a purely physical effect on the eye, and a deeper effect causing a vibration of the soul or an 鈥渋nner resonance.鈥� He compares the spiritual life of humanity to a pyramid; the artist has a mission to lead others to the pinnacle with his work, and only the greatest of artists reach those heights. Kandinsky was influenced in his thought by , a philosophical-religious system popularized in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by Madame Blavatsky. reflecting on Kandinsky鈥檚 treatise .

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teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His book was published in 2004.  discussing the book.

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This well-known 1955 painting by is titled . Download a discussing the work.

The phrase ex opere operato is a Latin phrase drawn from Catholic sacramental theology. Meaning 鈥渇rom the work done,鈥� it indicates the belief that the efficacy of a sacrament derives from the action of the sacrament and not from the merits or holiness of the priest or minister performing the sacrament.

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The mounted an exhibition in 2000 titled . Also see the discussion of Seeing Salvation above, at 6:45.

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The exhibition Caravaggio: The Final Years was shown at the National Gallery, London, in 2005. from The Guardian.

The exhibition The Sacred Made Real, a 鈥渓andmark reappraisal of religious art from the Spanish Golden Age with works created to shock the senses and stir the soul,鈥� was shown at the National Gallery, London, in 2009. .

The Missing Peace is a touring exhibition that was shown at LUMA in 2006. . One of the works in The Missing Peace, Lewis deSoto鈥檚 Paranirvana, was shown at MOCRA in 2000.

 was shown at MOBIA in 2011. The exhibition considered the ongoing conventions and artistic permutations of the visual presentation of Christ as the . .

was presented at MOBIA in 2009. The exhibition featured paintings and sculptures that bridge public and private spaces, suitable both for artistic enjoyment and liturgical ritual. A catalog accompanied the exhibition.

has been the subject of two solo exhibitions at MOCRA (Metamorphoses in 1998 and Avoda: Objects of the Spirit in 2003) and several of his works are in the MOCRA collection. Visit Tobi Kahn's website here.

Installation view of Consecrations: The Spiritual in Art in the Time of AIDS at MOCRA, 1994. Photo by Cheryl Ungar.

Consecrations: The Spiritual in Art in the Time of AIDS was organized and curated by MOCRA Director Terrence Dempsey, S.J., and presented at MOCRA in 1994. The exhibition brought MOCRA wide acclaim and notice in the art world and the general public.