Conclave begins today to elect Pope Francis’s successor. Here’s what time to watch for black or white smoke, how the process ...

Heritage meets gumption at the Met’s big spring exhibition, where pathbreaking pieces join anonymous garments to build an ...

For white smoke, a compound of the chemicals potassium chlorate, lactose, and rosin (also known as Greek pitch) is used, ...

At the end of each voting round, black smoke means a new pope has not yet to be selected, while white smoke indicates a new ...

Here's how the conclave creates black and white smoke and why the Catholic Church began using them to signal whether a new pope has been elected.

In October 2021, the artist Serge Attukwei Clottey watched anxiously as a painting he had made just a few months earlier went ...

The Vatican’s tradition of using black and white smoke signals from the Sistine Chapel chimney continues to announce the ...

For much of the past century, the conclave has needed between three and 14 ballots to find a pope. John Paul I—the pope who ...

The smoke is created by burning the ballots, and originally just meant that no pope had been elected. It was only in the conclave of 1914, which elected Benedict XV, that different smoke colors were ...

The singer announced Tuesday that she will be bringing her Mayhem Ball to Los Angeles for four nights and San Francisco for three shows. These seven added concerts will take place in the Golden ...

This restored San Francisco Victorian in the city’s Mission District brings the past to life. The postcard-perfect Italianate building built in 1872 was updated between 2015 and 2017 to ...