Ronald Reagan's election sparked a counterrevolution in the arts community, with Dylan, Bono and Scorsese among those showing their faith, sometimes controversially, in work of that era.

And yet, the art created in New York in the 1980s, in all its messy duality of saints and sinners, has endured over the past ...

The Last Supper, Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece ... Among the first to approve the restoration was the ancient Expertizer of Renaissance Art, Bernard Berenson, 89, who climbed a scaffold ...

"His work of art represents the Last Supper as told in the Gospel of John 13:21, when Jesus announces that one of his twelve Apostles would betray him before sunrise, but does not reveal which one ...

THE LAST SUPPER: Art, Faith, Sex, and Controversy in the 1980s, by Paul Elie What, you thought our long national nightmare of celebrating the 50th anniversary of “Saturday Night Live” was ...

It is a spiritual experience to transform yourself through the art of drag.” Leonardo da Vinci, “The Last Supper” (1495–98), tempera on gesso, 15 x 28 4/5 feet (~5 x ~9 m) (image via ...

From an art history perspective ... Andy Warhol made an extensive series of paintings based on Da Vinci’s Last Supper at the end of his life. Those works continue to receive thoughtful ...

A performance involving French singer Philippe Katerine as Bacchus at the Olympics opening ceremony was incorrectly interpreted as a recreation of “The Last Supper.” (photo by Ludovic Marin ...

an art historian and professor emeritus at the Australian National University. The central figure wearing the headdress was reminiscent of High Renaissance-style Last Supper paintings, in which ...