Books often experience a new wave of popularity after they've been turned into movies. In a similar way, a couple of paintings are now competing for attention -- after they became the subjects of ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Carel Fabritius’s The Goldfinch is a small painting, roughly 9 x 13 inches, but it holds its own in a room filled with 15 Dutch master works by the likes of Hals, Steen, and Rembrandt. It is a potent ...

Christina Swider, a sixth-grader at John F. Kennedy Middle School, recently won an award in Cornell University’s Celebrate Urban Birds Fascinating Feathers art competition. For an assignment in her ...