The funeral of Pope Francis captures a fundamental visual and ideological tension within Catholicism.

In a recent session of the Indian parliament Culture Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat disclosed that the Taj Mahal in Agra ...

The word "ninja" may bring to mind a person dressed mostly in black, but what they wore was actually quite different.

Francis did away with that sort of viewing. Instead, a procession brought his coffin on Wednesday directly to St. Peter’s ...

The Detroit Institute of Arts is presenting a special exhibition that reunites, for the first time in more than two centuries, a portrait with the elaborate armor depicted within it.

But the opening of La Fondation, a 58-room hotel with interiors by the New York-based design firm Roman and Williams, might ...

Most famous as the hometown of Shakespeare’s tragic couple Romeo and Juliet, Verona isn’t typically one of the first cities ...

Archaeologists recently uncovered a trove of artifacts from a 17th-century military camp in Germany. Some of the findings ...

In this edition of Retail Churn, a Rolex dealer and a toy shop move to bigger digs, while a "comfy chic" boutique opens and a ...

More than 500 antique clothes irons are on display at his B&B, the Old Iron Inn.

A facsimile of the 17th-century Dutch documents that Charles Gehring spent 50 years translating, showing the condition of ancient records damaged by floods, in battles, in leaky ship holds and ...

As if splashed onto the wall with a monumental brush, Anne von Freyburg’s installations visualize fabric as gestural, ...