Politics aside, his victory is historic. If elected in November, Mamdani would become the first Muslim and South Asian mayor ...

A new exhibition at the British Museum in London traces the stunning evolution of India's devotional art through 189 objects.

(The Conversation) — Van Gogh’s painting was inspired by French artist Jean-Francois Millet’s 1860 painting. But he transformed Millet’s composition into an image of hope.

The Roman basilica of the Augustinians — Pope Leo XIV's religious order — preserves an iconic painting of the Virgin Mary by Caravaggio.

Crypto-religious art maintains its “crypto” status by not declaring itself, and the culture wars of the late-Reagan-early-Bush years made that position untenable.

In the strictly religious community, art is seen by some as a distraction from the study of Torah. Additionally, there are very few studios and galleries that respect their customs and rules.

The painting is found in the chapel dedicated to St. Matthew in the Church of San Luigi dei Francesi. The donor of the chapel was a French cardinal, Matthieu Cointerel, who died in 1585.

In 1993, Saint Louis University opened a new initiative that it touted as the first of its kind—in its words, “the first museum to bring an interfaith focus to contemporary art.” The Museum of ...

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I hung the painting as a tribute to my grandmother, who looked at us with the love and awe with which one might look at the child Jesus. She let us know we were important.

Ancient Egyptians were so into oral sex, they put it in their religion — and religious art Artifacts from ancient Egyptian culture reveal a culture that was far less puritanical about oral sex ...

At the entrance to "Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300-1350," an exhibition at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art on view through Jan. 25, hangs a small Byzantine icon of the Virgin and Child ...