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‘An Act of God’ adapts tweets to Broadway

May 1, 2015

SANTA MONICA, Calif. — God has been good to David Javerbaum. God’s Twitter account (well, @TheTweetOfGod, an account created by Javerbaum that posts witticisms in the name of God) has nearly 2 million followers. And God’s memoir (actually a book written by Javerbaum) has now been adapted (by God, according

Rembrandt’s influence lives on in ‘Lamentation’

Apr 5, 2015

Easter Sunday is the day Christians celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ, the most joyous and triumphant event in the Christian year. According to Christian faith, that ascension to eternal life had a terrible cost: Jesus had to die a human death by crucifixion: a slow, painful, and humiliating method

Vatican updates Sistine Chapel to try to preserve the frescoes

Oct 29, 2014

VATICAN CITY – The Sistine Chapel has a brighter, cooler new look. The Vatican on Wednesday unveiled a state-of-the art illumination and air conditioning system designed to better show off the chapel’s precious frescoes and protect them from the dirt, breath and heat of the nearly 6 million people who

Provocative Argentine exhibit of Barbies is pulled
- Oct 11, 2014
Barbie has long been an icon, just not a holy one. A provocative art exhibit featuring Barbie fashion dolls as religious figures such as the Virgin Mary and her boyfriend Ken as a crucified Jesus Christ has been canceled amid complaints and threats by angry believers, the artists behind the

By Associated Press
Art forger once posed as a Jesuit priest to give his work away
- Oct 1, 2014
WASHINGTON — If you are of the mind that it is better to give than to receive, then this story is for you. It has to do with Mark Landis. He has spent much of his adult life as an art forger. And he was a good one, as he

By Catholic News Service
Barbie as the Virgin Mary? Ken as Jesus? Italian Catholics are not amused
- Sep 25, 2014
ROME – Barbie has had a number of careers in her 55 years — flight attendant, veterinarian, astronaut, even president. Her latest role, however, is raising eyebrows. Italy’s Catholic bishops are furious about controversial artistic depictions of the popular Barbie and Ken dolls as the Virgin Mary and a crucified

By Religion News Service