The stock icon has yielded to something darker and more ominous.

In discussing his work, App likes to allude to his lifelong attempt to find what he calls authentic ways of making a painting.

A lively and mostly persuasive argument that the Shroud of Turin is not Jesus Christ's funerary cloth, but was instead likely fabricated by an artist in the 1350s, and then slowly embraced by Catholic officials who saw an opportunity for profit.

It’s hard to reconcile my rich memories of the place with what now reads as a limited and parochial landscape.