Griffin Oleynick

Pope Francis’s latest statement on blessing LGBTQ couples should be neither dismissed as meaningless nor read as a major doctrinal shift.

For some, coolness implies distance and detachment. But for painter Barkley L. Hendricks, it becomes a way in.

The Met Opera’s production of ‘Dead Man Walking’ transports its audience to spaces of suffering only God can know.

A conversation with Jake Heggie, the composer who adapted the story of Sr. Helen Prejean’s work against capital punishment as an opera.

Cecily Brown’s art absorbs and transforms fragments from the whole sweep of European art history.

For filmmaker Gianfranco Rosi, Pope Francis is a revolutionary, a man who calls on us to imagine a better world. But being a revolutionary comes with loneliness.