or even a bearded monkey — which the screwed-up fresco now resembles — this original shows Jesus Christ in a crown of thorns, his eyes looking up. The original canvas was found in a local art ...

“This time I have started on the series that involves big canvas paintings, to get over with the creative urge over Jesus who keeps intriguing my sensibilities,” Kapoor said. While the thorns ...

The 10-foot by 19-foot painting, which was painted by the late merchant mariner Hunter A. Wood in 1944, depicts Jesus saving sailors lost at sea and hung in the USMMA's Wiley Hall for 76 years ...