Robert Moses, the controversial master builder, wanted the 1964-65 World’s Fair to be not only successful but spectacular. Francis Cardinal Spellman, the archbishop of New York and the most influentia ...

His company, Vescovo Buonarroti Art, LLC, received the first-ever-granted worldwide exclusive license to replicate Michelangelo's incomparable "La Pietà" from the Vatican Observatory Foundation ...

For a more unusual and slightly eerie experience, visit the Catacombs of Rome, a series of underground burial sites used by ...

There are many things to love about fall. Perhaps most notably this year, it's the relief from the excruciating heat that ...

Things were looking dire for my fiction-film outlook when, as the weekend approached, I noticed that the best films in that category I’d seen were both made around the time I was born: excellent ...

It’s billed as a historical drama, except the real-life Laszlo Toth was a geologist, not an architect, and he became famous by vandalizing Michelangelo’s “Pieta ... greats — Antonioni’s “La Notte,” ...

From Our Lady of the World’s Fair: Bringing Michelangelo’s Pietà to Queens in 1964, by Ruth D. Nelson, a Three Hills book ...

Poems inspired by Hilma af Klint, a fictional account of Peggy Guggenheim’s life, and the first biography of Algerian artist ...