When Bashar al-Assad was toppled in December, the iconography of posters, billboards and statues emblematic of his family’s brutal decades-long grip on the country also came down. The images of ...

Likely the artist’s final work, this 16th-century painting is a vast, darkly burnished depiction of Christ’s death that is ...

Detail of Michelangelo’s Pietà. The master searched Carrara for months to find the perfect block of “statuario,” a revered type of pure white stone. Smith Archive / Alamy In antiquity ...

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“Antisemitic acts cannot and will not be tolerated at Northwestern,” the school’s Jewish president said after the graffiti spree. Jewish students at Northwestern University awoke on the ...

(JTA) — Three dozen members of the Board of Deputies of British Jews have issued a public letter harshly criticizing Israel’s continued offensive in Gaza, revealing a divide within the largest ...

He was not much older when he dazzled Pope Paul V, who reportedly declared, "We hope that this youth will become the Michelangelo of his century." Prophetic words: over a long lifetime ...

A thread in r/Texas is going viral after a giant 9-foot tall bust of Elon Musk was recently defaced. There are giant gashes and gouges on the face of the "likeness". My best guess is that someone took ...

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