Pope Francis invites artists to the Sistine Chapel as the Vatican seeks a new cultural dialogue

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VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis praised artists on Friday as true visionaries who can see, dream and invent as he welcomed 200 artists, filmmakers and writers into the Sistine Chapel to mark the 50th anniversary of the Vatican Museums' contemporary art collection. Pope Paul VI first invited artists into the Sistine Chapel in 1964 in hopes of renewing the friendship between the Catholic Church and artists that, in past centuries, had resulted in such masterpieces as Michelangelo's frescoed chapel itself. The collection, the youngest in the museum, is marking its 50th anniversary this year with an exhibit of some of its most recent acquisitions, including by artists invited to Friday's audience. In recent years, the Vatican has sought to relaunch the Holy See's engagement with contemporary culture, participating in the Venice art and architecture biennales and, in the future, literary festivals. Bishop Paul Tighe, the No. 2 in the Vatican's culture and education ministry, said the inclusion of even provocative artists was evidence of the Vatican's desire to enter into dialogue with contemporary culture.

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VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis praised artists on Friday as true visionaries who can see, dream and invent as he welcomed 200 artists, filmmakers and writers into the Sistine Chapel to mark the 50th anniversary of the Vatican Museums' contemporary art collection. Pope Paul VI first invited artists into the Sistine Chapel in 1964 in hopes of renewing the friendship between the Catholic Church and artists that, in past centuries, had resulted in such masterpieces as Michelangelo's frescoed chapel itself. The collection, the youngest in the museum, is marking its 50th anniversary this year with an exhibit of some of its most recent acquisitions, including by artists invited to Friday's audience. In recent years, the Vatican has sought to relaunch the Holy See's engagement with contemporary culture, participating in the Venice art and architecture biennales and, in the future, literary festivals. Bishop Paul Tighe, the No. 2 in the Vatican's culture and education ministry, said the inclusion of even provocative artists was evidence of the Vatican's desire to enter into dialogue with contemporary culture.
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I'm not an artist but this seems doomed to be a disappointment. The reason artists in the past "collaborated" with the Church is because that was often the only option to find a patron.
Most of the artists probably were not as aligned with the teachings of the Catholic Church as the Pope apparently hopes they were and that certainly ain't getting any better in the modern age.