“This toluk,” says the painter Jordan Casteel, 37, “made by a Belauan artist from polished and carved sea-turtle shells, is ...

It is easy to treat the Dutch artist as an agreeable intimist—a transcriber of domestic niceties. But he grew up in a world ...

Each spring, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation releases its list of fellows—a cross-section of artists, scholars, ...

For her father King George's coronation in 1937, then-Princess Elizabeth proudly wore a silver coronet, a decade before her ...

Michelangelo’s fresco of “The Last Judgment,” covering the wall behind the altar of the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City, is ...

The era of “Girls” is long gone, but its creator still has much to teach us.

Susan Philippart, a 61-year-old primary school teacher, was duly rushed to intensive care but sadly some ten days later she ...

Views from the 16th-century palazzo take in a "living stage" overlooking the historic Piazza della Signoria and the Tuscan ...

For the second consecutive year, Peroni Nastro Azzurro renews its partnership with the Internazionali BNL d’Italia, one of ...

Very few things rally the nation quite like a royal wedding. More recent occasions include the nuptials of Prince William and ...

Rome, 4th century. Emperor Constantius II rules an empire that is no longer that of Augustus. The old divinities of the ...

Jesus said to Nicodemus, ' Do not marvel that I said to you, "You must be born anew." The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes.