Bishop leads cabal of modernist priests praising depraved blasphemy. Our Lady as a bearded man and more.

The Vienna Artists Collective is staging a Christmas Exhibition in Vienna The exhibition DU SOLLST DIR EIN BILD MACHEN (YOU SHALL MAKE YOURSELF AN IMAGE) explores the imaginative power of religious experience, its visual counterpart in Christian iconography, and its interpretation by contemporary artists. The focus is on works whose creators approach Christian iconography with a critical but also loving, humorous but also feminist eye, enabling new perspectives on pictorial motifs that have been handed down over centuries. In its conception and orientation, the exhibition does not stand for superficial provocation or loud protest, but rather for a differentiated view, a search for common ground and an endeavour to promote a dialogue between contemporary art and religion. Religion and art are among the essential traits of human beings and deal with fundamental questions: the question of meaning, the world, our existence. Religion makes the unfamiliar familiar, while art often contrasts …