Statues have meaning only as "conductors"; they help in directing our attention to the one signified by the statue. A statue of Mary can be compared to such a "conductor." She leads to what is most ...

An eccentric, innovative, workaholic master, Donatello lit up his statues with an inner soul ... the freedom and spirit of this new age. His Mary Magdalene, carved out of wood, is provocative ...

That was the opening line to a Sept. 5 Facebook post on the Divine Mercy Parish Facebook page announcing the church might get ...

A “hateful” vandal smashed a statue of the Blessed Mary outside a Catholic church in Queens this week, police said. The callous creep used a rock to desecrate the statue in front of the ...

Mary Magdalene is one of the best-known figures in the Bible and has been a frequent inspiration to artists and writers over the last 2000 years. However, her identity has provoked much debate.

In this gnostic gospel, Mary Magdalene appears as a disciple, singled out by Jesus for special teachings. In this excerpt, the other disciples are discouraged and grieving Jesus' death.

It is in the latter landscape where Donatello and Venus de Milo have set out to plumb the depths of the confluence between magic and science. Unfortunately, it is also there where they are ...

The world’s tallest statue, which was unveiled last fall, stands at 597 ft. on an island in the Narmada River. It towers over the Sardar Sarovar Dam in the western Indian state of Gujarat ...

Magdalene Odundo, also known as Magdalene Anyango Namakhiya Odundo, is a distinguished British and Kenyan artist renowned for her work in ceramics. Born in 1950 in Nairobi, Kenya, she currently ...