Zócalo Public Square

Religious experiences are deeply personal, yet for millennia people who have had spiritual visions or encounters have attempted to convey what they saw—and artists have rendered these details in word and image. At a Zócalo Public Square/”Open Art” event at the Getty Center moderated by documentarian Jody Hassett Sanchez, three panelists discussed—and questioned—how humans have depicted the supernatural: Lisa Bitel, University of Southern California medieval historian and author of Our Lady of the Rock, Leonard Norman Primiano, religious studies scholar at Cabrini University, and Michael Tolkin, writer and director of The Rapture.