Paganism” is a word with which to conjure. From The Iliad to the Wicker Man, it has been part of Western culture, and has in ...

Michelangelo’s famous frescoes at the Sistine Chapel were originally met with scorn, concern, and controversy.

Caspar David Friedrich’s mystic landscapes, their romantic origins and his revival in 21st-century exhibitions ...

A traditional festival that celebrates an old German folklore tale around Christmas is coming back at the El Paso County ...

While Santa Claus’ dark counterpart was born centuries ago in Europe, Krampus’ recent explosion in the U.S. is all thanks to ...

At the beginning of the pestilence and when it ends, there’s always a propensity for rhetoric. ... It is only in the thick of a calamity that one gets hardened to the truth, to silence. —Albert ...

Dame and the Sagrada Familia to Canterbury and the Duomo di Milano, here's our round-up of the best cathedrals in the world.

So much of how we celebrate Christmas comes from the Victorian era, but it might be for the best that some of these ...

The Monuments Men and Women Foundation is on the hunt to recover stolen masterpieces—and they say this could be our best ...

A long-lost painting by 17th-century Flemish master Peter Paul Rubens sold at auction for well beyond its asking price.

Late last week, a German musicians’ organization scored a pretty crushing legal victory against OpenAI. The court says the training of the GPT 4 and 4o models included copyright infringement, and that ...

An exhibition reckons with the revived legacy of an immigrant artist who created ornate illuminations and scathing ...