These outstanding Osaka museums let you revisit the city’s rich history, taste fine whisky and explore world culture ...

Recent protests on racial justice have also questioned the portrayal of Jesus as a white man. An art historian explains how this image appeared and came to be marketed worldwide.

“It looks like it will die,” Nishibori said of the cherry tree, “but it’s not going to die. The next spring, there will be ...

A look at Japan’s love of packaging, from impeccably crafted cardboard to lacquered works of art.

There are very few remains of ancient ships, except in one unusual place: the Black Sea has a unique environment that ...

such as seventh-century Byzantine medic Paul of Aegina. Translated into Latin in the 12th century, Method was a foundational medical text in Europe well into the Renaissance. The 12th century saw ...

The subject of numerous controversies, she is defined by ambiguity, welcoming outcasts to the Church and provoking more ...

The best-selling author of “A Man Called Ove,” “Anxious People,” and the “Beartown” trilogy highlights four novels from his native Sweden that are making their English débuts this year.

Mainz is a twin city with Baku, which is located on the same meridian. It's fate. “You can't escape fate” is the name of one ...

Happenings A delegation of Chabad rabbis gathered at San Francisco City Hall for the mayor’s proclamation of April 9 as Education and Sharing Day in honor of the 123rd Hebrew […] ...

To scholars, the early 18th-century religious artwork is a key ... as the greatest example of Baroque-era religious art in Central Europe: the Bohorodchany Iconostasis. For more than two centuries ...