In the opening days of the New Year, we celebrate the coming of the Wise Men to worship the Baby Jesus. The Adoration of the Magi is one of the most popular themes in Christian art, and I've selected six new images from the Sacred Art Pilgrim Collection for the month of January highlighting the rich diversity of contemporary interpretations of the Gospel story, told in Matthew 2:1-12. Haitian Folk Artist Louis Luma offers the most traditional depiction of the scene, where the radiance of the Christ Child brightens the fleece of a lamb by the manger. The Virgin Mother and Baby Jesus loom large before the much diminished Kings from foreign parts in Egyptian Iconographer Rania Kuhn's egg tempera panel in the time-honored style of Coptic Christian art. German Artist Anne Koken uses a few evocative lines to make the Baby Jesus the focal point of her carefully composed and highly decorative linocut dating from the early 20th century. American Painter Neith Nevelson, granddaughter of the renowned Modernist Sculptor Louise Nevelson, makes the Three Kings appear as one (left) in her gold-flecked painting of the Adoration of the Magi in a modern Expressionist manner. The most abstract pieces in this month's offerings come from antipodal art worlds. Australian Aboriginal Artist Linda Syddick Napaltjarri tells the story of the Wise Men in pictographs from the sacred Dreamtime art of the indigenous peoples of West Australia. The color palette of her acrylic piece copies traditional ochre earth paintings. American Artist Roland Poska clearly delineates sacred zones in his similarly semi-figurative abstract intalgio print of the scene on handmade paper. The new holiday images can be viewed in the We Three Kings page of The Coming of Christ gallery of The Life of Christ section. (Happy New Year from the Sacred Art Pilgrim!)