On May 1, the 2023 Met Gala commenced. The annual fundraising gala, which is held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan, is viewed as the most...
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When you walk into the new traveling art exhibit, “Andy Warhol: Revelation,” one of the first things you see is a poster-sized black-and-white...
Around the turn of the millenium, British scholar Emma Heathcote-James set out to collect stories of modern day angel encounters. She placed a classified ad...
We face no shortage of celebrities who have responded to our troubled world with anger, with protest, or by joining the Resistance. Those who have responded...
By and large, I am not a fan of pop music. Hip-hop, soul, blues, and grunge rock are more my style. But there I was on a cold and rainy Sunday night in May at...
Whether I’m reading, watching a movie, listening to music, or looking at visual art, I’ve found I can usually spot artists who bear the stamp of the religious...
“Find a place you trust and then try trusting it for a while.” With these words, the first of Corita Kent’s “Rules,” she burst into my life as an impish, holy...
The #MeToo movement, launched by activist Tarana Burke 10 years ago, went viral in October after actress Alyssa Milano and other prominent women publicized it...
He was perhaps America’s most beloved film critic, but that is not what Roger Ebert thought he wanted to be. The way Ebert tells it, he imagined a career as a...
Most of us devote little thought to ocean-borne shipping. Yet it plays an enormous role in our lives, as around 90 percent of everything that needs to go from...