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\"timesstyleportman2.jpg\"This weekend the New York Times launched their Style Magazine “T”<\/a> online and it’s pretty fantastic. Their theme for the holiday issue, interestingly enough, is “Art and Soul.” The articles include a gorgeous slideshow of photographs by Thomas Struth of houses of worship<\/a>–both the traditional and avant garde variety.
\nThe corresponding article, by Michael Kimmelman, explains the idea behind this retrospective:<\/p>\n

In these pictures of Richter\u2019s work at the cathedral and of other silent sites of worship \u2014 temples of modern art, mostly \u2014 it\u2019s not the scenes of saints and martyrs that necessarily stir elevated feelings. The light does. It\u2019s the common motif, whether it\u2019s glowing through Richter\u2019s hand-blown glass (in 72 colors arranged not by God, man or fate but by a computer) or coming through the windows of the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua, Italy. There, Giotto, calculating how much light was let in on one side of the building and not the other, used the sun to breathe life into his paintings. He also used it as a metaphor for enlightenment, naturally.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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