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Revealing the untold story of the walrus and an English treasure at risk of being sent to the US
The Independent via Yahoo News· 4 months agoNew research is shedding fresh light on one of Britain’s most important yet least well-known works...
The Key to Mike Johnson’s Christian Extremism Hangs Outside His Office
Rolling Stone via Yahoo News· 7 months agoThe American public has had much to learn about Mike Johnson over the past two weeks. Until his...
Thanksgiving hymns are a few centuries old, tops – but biblical psalms of gratitude and praise go...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 2 years agoKing David playing the lyre in a scene from a 15th-century manuscript of the Book of Psalms....
The art and allure of awful food photos
Salon via Yahoo News· 3 months agoDinner from Half Shell Photo courtesy of Maggie Hennessy For various reasons blurring the lines of work and pleasure, I’ve spent the past 13 years...
Does Rick Steves think about the Roman Empire? Of course he does
TODAY via Yahoo News· 8 months agoSpeaking to Rick Steves, the travel writer and television personality, is like speaking to the...
The new iconoclasm in Tallahassee
The Ledger via Yahoo News· 1 year agoFrom the time of the Reformation, evangelicals have had an uneasy relationship with art, even religiously themed art. In the 1500s, Protestant zealots...
Penance and plague: How the Black Death changed one of Christianity's most important rituals
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 1 year agoConfession, circa 1460/1470. Artist unknown. Photo by Heritage Art/Heritage Images via Getty...
‘The Student’ and ‘Brave New Words’: Teaching Teachers New Tricks
The Wall Street Journal· 1 month agoThe U.S. has the world’s best universities and, it sometimes seems, the world’s worst students. This...
Inside the Getty's rigorous effort to fix a 500-year-old broken masterpiece
LA Times via Yahoo News· 5 months agoPower tools and paint made for a sometimes-harrowing repair kit for Lucas Cranach the Elder's pair of panel paintings 'Adam' and 'Eve' from circa 1530.
See inside Callendar House, the 14th-century Scottish mansion where 'Outlander' was filmed
INSIDER via Yahoo News· 4 weeks agoThe exterior of Callendar House in Falkirk, Scotland.Mikhaila Friel/Business Insider Callendar House...