Experts say there isn’t a single front-runner, but several names have been cited as indications of the direction the Roman Catholic Church might take. By The New York Times A new Roman Catholic ...

View of Positano from Il San Pietro’s Palazzo Santa Croce. Photographs, except where noted, by Jeremy Wayne. “When good Americans, die,” as Oscar Wilde wrote in “The Picture of Dorian Gray ...

Few beverages have shaped culture quite like coffee. Artists across centuries have captured coffee in paintings, from intimate domestic moments to its mass-market ubiquity.

Author Pietro Aretino praised the “elegant vivacity of artifice” in Michelangelo’s gender-blended figures. Androgyny is a trope throughout the show: from Liberale da Verona’s dreamy ...