MICHAEL Strauss issues a challenge: Try picking up his pride and joy, a gold-and-silver Rothschild menorah. The visitor tries with one hand and fails but remains fascinated by the beautiful piece made ...

The red stitching has long since faded, and the hand-woven linen has softened from white to ivory. Embroidered with a menorah ...

The collection of art and ritual objects will move to the Brooklyn Museum for six years starting in June after the Rubin closes its building to focus on traveling exhibitions and long-term loans. By ...

"Tibetan Buddhist art is not only rich in figural icons but also extremely diverse in its symbols and ritual objects. As a first systematic review, Buddhist Ritual Art of Tibet is an abundantly ...

To stand in the new gallery of Judaica in Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) is to experience the power of objects to tell stories. Together, the elegant objects and paintings that make up Intentional ...

An astute owl with a round belly and pointy claws that served as a wine vessel crafted in ancient China, circa the 12th or 13th century B.C., is one of the oldest objects in "Eternal Offerings: ...

This photo provided by the Gyeongju National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage shows the key artifacts on display. (PHOTO NOT FOR SALE) (Yonhap) GYEONGJU, Sept. 30 (Yonhap) -- Buddhist ritual ...

"Today, China's classical antiquity is often studied through recovered artifacts, but before this practice became widespread, scholars instead reconstructed the distant past through classical texts ...

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A bag of coffee beans would seem out of place at most art exhibits. But at "Ritual Objects: The Radical and The Practical in Art & Design," a bright red bag emblazoned with the black words "Eight ...