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

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 ...

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 ...

Udo Kier, the German actor who starred in both European art house and Hollywood movies, collaborating with some of the most significant artists of his time, died on Sunday at age 81, his partner, ...

When they lived in German Village in the 2010s, Kelly Jasin and her husband Bryan would often pass an abandoned art studio that Kelly thought just "screamed" bridal store. An attorney and banker by ...

Ever wondered what war smells like? Or pondered the odour of love, the stench of medieval Paris, or the fragrance of religion? A new exhibition in Germany allows visitors to discover unknown smells by ...

Matthias Balk / AFP via Getty Images German police say they’ve broken up an international art forgery ring that tried to sell works purportedly by Pablo Picasso, Rembrandt, Frida Kahlo and others for ...

Since early this month, there's been no escaping the new Taylor Swift song “The Fate of Ophelia.” The lead single from Swift's latest album, The Life of a Showgirl, takes its title from Shakespeare's ...

A pop song, a Shakespearean heroine and an Art Nouveau painting have collided in Taylor Swift's latest hit, "The Fate of Ophelia," and the result is a sudden rush of fans to a German museum, where her ...

Multiple people have spoken out against Pope Leo blessing a block of ice during a global church summit on climate change, with one calling it part of a “weird pagan Earth-worshipping hippy ritual.” ...

When you hear the word "pagan," what comes to mind? Some might envision something nefarious and primitive, fueled by popular horror movies like Midsommar. Others might think of WitchTok, a social ...