The curators of "Louis C. Tiffany and the Art of Devotion," opening Friday at the Museum of Biblical Art in Manhattan, have in fact traveled to see recurring themes in the panes.
For the baseball monks who gather with Zen-like devotion every Friday at Heckscher Field in Central Park to practice the art of softball, Chuck Knoblauch's inability to throw to first base sheds light on the demons that can pollute a player's mind.
(Burke) ★ 'Some Sweet Day' (Friday through Sunday) The dance-in-the-art-world event of the season concludes with two works that any contemporary art-goer won't want to miss: Sarah Michelson's "Devotion Study #3" (Friday and Sunday at 4 p.m., Saturday at 1 p.m). and Deborah Hay's "Blues" (Friday and Sunday at 1 p.m., Saturday at 3 p.m).
These days, called Days of Special Devotion, are Ash Wednesday and all the days of Holy Week, especially Good Friday.
Today, though — in an age of always-on entertainment options — stars must refresh that devotion on a day-to-day, even minute-to-minute basis.
When her son, worried about her meditating on the bare floor of the chapel, bought her a prayer rug which she found too prickly to sit on, she compromised between his stubborness and hers by changing her means of devotion to a day of mauna, or silence, every Saturday.
But Greenfield, while no looker, made himself useful in a managerial capacity, and in the end his devotion won the day.
I have eaten unusually well, and exercised with great devotion, nearly every day for roughly 40 years.
In my family it's a sort of minor Sunday devotion, with an attendant after-dinner ritual of rummaging for the special cups, worrying the cream and carefully staging the whole vertical assembly.
Perhaps Mr. Obama was motivated in part to try to neutralize the criticism leveled by some right-leaning commentators about his Sunday devotion to golfing with his buddies; they see him benefitting from a media double standard that hurts Republican presidents who take to the links.
The highly inflected images of his early career, built on a worship of such directors as Godard, Martin Scorsese, and Sergio Leone, have given way to a self-imposed flatness, a bland visual delivery of his own script mechanisms, reflecting his latter-day devotion to such minor masters as William Witney and Charles Marquis Warren.
