This new exhibition explores our religious devotion to pop stars

Holy Pop! at Somerset House celebrates the private shrines dedicated to the biggest idols of pop culture, including Prince, Elvis, and Britney Spears

This new exhibition explores our religious devotion to pop stars
Children of Graceland (project). Hayley Louisa Bro

The Roman Catholic Church has a precise system for categorising the religious worth of holy relics. A first-class relic is the mortal remains of a saint – for example, the head of Saint Catherine, entombed in Sienna. A second-class relic would be an object used or worn by the saint; it becomes holy through its intimate contact with the venerated being, such as the Turin Shroud. A third-class relic is an object brought into contact with a first or second-class relic; it can be separatedhellip;

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Children of Graceland (project). Hayley Louisa Bronbsp;Aaliyah’s Crypt in the Rosewood Mausoleum at Ferncnbsp; Tania Dolvernbsp; Tory Turk, 2026nbsp; Graham Dolphinnbsp; Damian Griffithsnbsp;
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