Can you send us a link to the tapestry photos with the names of the saints represented on the tapestries, like the one in this second post? I’m interested.
The Archdiocese has finally realized what a treasure it has there, and has put up a page on its website and is actually selling copies.
There are links to the "north tapestry gallery" and the "south tapestry gallery" where you can view all the panels.
Most of the "art" in the building is appalling - the usual 'modern', 'meaningful' stuff which means that it's (1) nonrepresentational (which is stupid in the context of religious art) and (2) deliberately ugly, as so much modern art is. So many artists have been trained in this style, and it is very difficult to get them to look at things in any different way. I think the two worst items in the whole place are the Tabernacle (which looks like three lengths of crushed, corroded leftover copper pipe from the salvage yard) and the ugly, androgynous, distorted image of the Blessed Virgin.
Where Nava, the tapestry artist, went right was by using photography as a base. Then at least his saints look like human beings.
