Taylor Worley is visiting associate professor of art history at Wheaton College and director for the Templeton Religion Trust project Thinking about Thinking: Conceptual Art and the Contemplative Tradition. He completed a PhD in the areas of contemporary art and theological aesthetics in the Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts at the University of St Andrews, and he is the author of Memento Mori in Contemporary Art: Theologies of Lament and Hope, which was published by Routledge in 2020.
The artist Felix Gonzalez-Torres was my introduction to conceptual art. At the time, I had no idea how profoundly affecting his work would be in my life and on my understanding of art. Nor could I have imagined how his artworks would allow me to acknowledge the history of the AIDS crisis he experienced. When […]
Contemporary art maintains a provocative fascination with the body, and in recent years several key artists have explored the body’s place in the Christian tradition to disquieting ends.
