In a place where natural beauty and industrial extraction collide, people are fighting for a town threatened by decline.

Are you looking for some activities to add to your itinerary during your visit to Annecy, France? European travel enthusiast ...

Artists have captured the hidden world of papal elections for centuries, turning secrecy into spectacle for the public.

Evidence of the sculptor Seamus Murphy’s industry can be found all over Cork. This year is the 50th anniversary of his ...

Stone Mad was first published in 1950, and opens with an account of Murphy’s father delivering him to O’Connell’s Art Marble Works ... and his interest in sculpture went beyond toiling ...

A genuine Slutsk sash and a 500-year-old Neman dugout canoe… What else can you see in the exhibition of ancient Belarusian culture at the ...

We grieve not just the passing of a pope, but the loss of a holy witness who taught us that to see sacramentally is not to withdraw from the world, but to love it more fiercely.

Art Diary, I include three exhibitions involving gardens – at Gainsborough's House, Philip Mould and Company, and Waddesdon ...

She guided us a few feet over and had me stand on a marble oval placed in the ... essentially the glorification of the Catholic Church's temporal power. When I started covering the Vatican, I ...

Whether you’re Catholic or not, it’s hard to argue with the fact that St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome is an amazing feat of architecture and art. The cornerstone for this sanctified structure ...

He addressed the vocation of the artist: "Art ... sculpture — these are not flourishes. They are forms of prayer. And prayer, he taught us, is not always spoken. Sometimes it is the hush of ...