Still from “A Requiem for Douglass” (2015), a film by Oren Goldenberg that compiles rituals created and performed during and after the demolition of the Douglass Towers housing project in Detroit (all ...

Farhoud Meybodi is launching Ritual Arts, a new production company, and has secured a first-look deal with Wayfarer Studios, the independent studio co-founded by Justin Baldoni and Steve Sarowitz. The ...

WORCESTER — It's a Buddhism we may not be familiar with in the West. In the current exhibition "Dharma and Punya: Buddhist Ritual Art of Nepal" at the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Gallery at the College ...

Massive historical transformations, by dint of their scale and waves of consequences that ripple across time and space, are difficult to grasp without an effective point of entry. Consider, for ...

New purchases provide a fuller picture of medieval Jewish life, including a 14th-century Spanish Bible from the Castile, one of only three from the region. Just over a year ago, the Metropolitan ...

Perhaps one of the most misunderstood tenets of Jewish law, the mikvah, or ritual monthly immersion by women after menstruation, is one of those things people don’t talk about. Among Orthodox Jewish ...

In “Sleeping Beauties,” an exhibition currently on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, a Fortuny “Delphos” gown is laid out behind glass, its days of gleaming life over and done. The springy ...

Examining Jewish ceremonial objects from antiquity to the present, Beauty and Ritual: Judaica from the Jewish Museum, New York marks the first in a series of presentations from the world-renowned ...