What the queen means to Jewish tradition and to resisting tyranny and persecution—in the seventeenth century and today.

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Painters across the centuries have turned this most intimate of transgressions into art, inviting viewers to become voyeurs ...

In a lavish Victorian-era parlor, a woman in a lace-trimmed dress half rises from the lap of a reclining man, her gaze ...

From the blood of the martyrs to swimming pool baptisms, the new TV series stages the biblical drama with intelligence and creativity.

A sobering look at the way the political landscape has shifted in Brazil.

After witnessing a string of fireballs streak across the sky in North America in 1860, the landscape painter rendered the ...

In works from her Biblical Domestic (2021–2024) and Menstrual Hystery (2024) series, Lightman trades halos for housework, and heavenly glory for the cluttered reality of her own everyday life. Her ...