The Vatican Gets Into Contemporary Art
Here’s a strange one. In order to keep the insides as interesting as the outsides of their beautifully designed churches, created by starchitects like Renzo Piano and Richard Meier, Art Info is reporting that the Vatican has announced plans to commission contemporary art work by famous artists to hang in their fanciest of churches:
The Pontifical Council for Culture will inaugurate the campaign by commissioning a number of new religious and spiritual works, which are to be shown at next year’s Venice Biennale.
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