Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ralph Fiennes stars in "Conclave." (Philippe Antonello / Focus Features) Edward Berger didn’t grow up Catholic. “I was raised ...

Installation view, Chrysanne Stathacos, “Rose Mandala Mirror (three reflections for HHDL)” (2006), glass mirror and roses, at Union Theological Seminary for the exhibition “compassion” (courtesy the ...

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, ...

When 18-year-old Corita Kent entered the Immaculate Heart of Mary women’s religious order in Los Angeles in 1936, she likely never imagined the career that awaited her. Despite her formation in a ...

Although they like to call themselves temples of art, most museums have shed their religious purpose and become secular malls crammed with objets d’art. But the word museum once denoted a “seat of the ...

The University of Chicago has received a $2.45 million grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. through its Religion and Cultural Institutions Initiative. In its first phase, the project will focus on ...

This course explores the relationships among sacred text, art, and cultural practice through the lens of the Black experience. Students will examine frame of reference-how we see, interpret, and judge ...

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 ...

Edward Berger didn’t grow up Catholic. “I was raised outside the church, but if we went, it would be the Protestant Church,” he says over the phone. But when he was 9, he attended a Catholic Mass with ...