This week's art selection picks up where we left off last time with the account of the Last Judgment in the Gospel of Matthew, when the king, representing Christ, separates the sheep from the goats based on how they have treated "the least of these brothers and sisters of mine" with the sheep rewarded for their six acts of mercy and the goats banished to eternal torment for ignoring the needs of others. The apocalyptic story is well-suited to the satirical style of London-born Irish Artist Brian Whelan, who mixes the cosmic and the comic in ways that appeal to post-modern viewers who like sacred truths packaged with whimsy. In this colorful acrylic on canvas painting, sheeps and goats run rampant through illustrative boxes showing the hungry, the naked, the thirsty, the sick, the stranger, and the prisoner receiving comfort from anonymous hands. We know the goats are already in trouble from the way they have stripped the foliage off the trees of Paradise and lunged after forbidden fruit, but you cannot help but feel a tinge of remorse for their sorrowful fate, wondering if they have been judged a bit unfairly for being more ornery by nature than dumb and dutiful sheep! (John Kohan)