Sister Mary Corita Corita’s ’60s work comes alive again in DC's "R(ad)ical Love"

THE WASHINGTON POST
By Michael O'Sullivan

Sister Mary Corita (later Corita Kent), for eleanor, 1964;
Collection of the Associated Sulpicians of the United States

WASHINGTON, DC -- The artist Corita Kent (1918-86) was born Frances Elizabeth Kent. But she was known as Sister Mary Corita during her many years as a Roman Catholic nun with the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary and as an art teacher at Los Angeles’s Immaculate Heart College. So it’s a little surprising to see how wordy “R(ad)ical Love: Sister Mary Corita” is. In the end, “R(ad)ical Love” slows the viewer down, in a good way. Its best works are also its most frustrating. If they’re difficult to process, that’s because they operate more more like abstract paintings than ads. [link]

National Museum of Women in the Arts: “R(ad)ical Love: Sister Mary Corita” (Ends July 15) 1250 New York Ave. NW, Washington, DC, (202) 783-5000, nmwa.org