The motto that Francis selected for his papacy, ‘looking at him with mercy, he chose him,’ was inspired by Caravaggio’s ...

A distant relative, Isabella Stewart Gardner, built a Venetian-style palazzo in Boston that now houses a world-class art museum. Mr. Monks graduated from Harvard University with a bachelor’s ...

Buddhist monks in Sri Lanka have urged the British government to help protect the ancient Buddhist relics that descendants of ...

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Art Basel’s highly anticipated 2025 edition will bring together 290 leading galleries from 42 countries and territories, presenting an extraordinary array of works across all media—from painting and ...

Bangkok's hidden temple Wat Borom Niwat unveils 19th-century murals blending Buddhist themes with Western imagery.

It is impossible not to be conscious of your place in history here, and how important my predecessors in this role have been, ...

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It’s appropriate that Pavement—the incidentally radical post-punk rockers that flipped indie music upside down in the ’90s ...

"The Soul of Nature" is the first thorough survey of Caspar David Friedrich's career to be staged in the United States, and ...

Catholic Prayer Journal: This three-month devotional with guidance from Scripture, the saints and Christ himself has daily ...

The world's largest gathering of monks using singing bowls took place in India. There were 375 followers from various monasteries gathered in Bodh Gaya to set a new Guinness World Record for the ...