Must reads:

Studio Practice, Part 1

Studio Practice, Part 2

Dan Siedell is a friend of mine, and Art History professor at the University of Nebraska Omaha. He kicks so much rear it's not even funny.

His new book "God in the Gallery: A Christian Embrace of Modern Art" is fantastic. Buy it.

Also, if the following quote gets your heart rate up, join Rob Matthews and I, and chime in here:

"This I do believe, as much as some will disagree with me. I do not
think very much if any contemporary art rises to the level of
importance that would be required to warrant condemnation.
Contemporary art is simply too cut off in multiple ways from the broad
public to be that culturally influential. To the extent that some of
it is bad, and bad for us, it is nonetheless very marginal to our
culture. That is my judgment and of course some artists will disagree
(just as some musicians disagree when I say that Boulez, in
particular, represents a dead end in music that is not going to
"reproduce" culturally). And of course I may be wrong—perhaps art is
more dangerous than I think! I almost wish that were true."