The Museum of Art recently opened a brand new religious exhibit titled “Earthbound and Heavenward: The Sacred Art of ...

Should Italian museums return works of Renaissance art to the churches for which they were originally made? Eike Schmidt, the director of the Uffizi gallery in Florence, has been making that case—and ...

To be honest, I never gave halos much thought. I knew what they represented in general, but I didn't pay much attention to ...

A new exhibition at The Met Cloisters makes the case that gender and sexual fluidity were an essential part of Medieval religious art.

Religious art, in modern times, has fallen from the liveliness of the Renaissance, when religion was civilization and men brought a homely vitality to their church art. John Singer Sargent’s* symbolic ...

The art historian James Elkins tells of his experience as one of four jurors for the 1990 exhibition “Revelations: Artists Look at Religions.” It was a big show with several famous artists in it, ...

LOS ANGELES (RNS) — Bridge Projects is a new gallery space that seeks to link art with spiritual and religious traditions. LOS ANGELES (RNS) — For Linnéa Spransy, who grew up in a Christian commune in ...

NEW YORK -- In 1983, at Japan Society in Manhattan, I saw a show of early Buddhist sculpture so beautiful that I maxed out my Visa card to fly to Japan to find more. It was my first time there. I ...

I still remember standing in front of Michael Tracy's enormous triptych on a February 2015 visit to St. Louis University's Museum of Contemporary Religious Art. From a distance, the powerful work's ...

On April 2, 1980, Andy Warhol met Pope John Paul II in St. Peter’s Square. John Paul was in the first bloom of his pontificate, and his image as a young, strong, independent-minded world citizen had ...