As people across the globe celebrate World Poetry Day on March 21, we delve into the world of poetry in ancient Greece, from ...

Lesbos itself, where Sappho had first given utterance to the sexual desire of ... Cocteau, Tagore, Rilke, D’Annunzio and Gide all dropped in ‘for the cutting edge of art, and strawberry tarts’ as ...

Credits: Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Sappho is one of the most renowned lyric poets of ancient Greece, often referred to as the “Tenth Muse.” She lived on the island of Lesbos and wrote ...

Construction has begun on a 180-foot statue of the Virgin Mary in Konotopie, Poland. It’s believed that the project, once it is finished, will be the tallest religious structure of its kind ...

For clues about how this push may play out, look to “The Puritan” — the famous bronze statue by sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens — and the ninth great-grandfather of The Times’ art critic.

Housing Buddhist sculptures and relics, Luyeyuan Stone Sculpture Art Museum weaves a traditional Chinese garden throughout the passage of exhibition space. Volumes of this windowless building are ...

Construction has begun on a 180-foot statue of the Virgin Mary in Konotopie, Poland. It's believed that the project, once it is finished, will be the tallest religious structure of its kind ...

The sculpture, by Kristen Visbal, was immediately embraced as a symbol of female empowerment. It has since become something of a city landmark, installed in front of the New York Stock Exchange.

At the Museum of Contemporary Art in Avignon, a young woman once left ... With Twombly, it was a peapod, Moroccan tombstones, a fragment of Sappho’s poetry, Greek myth, seashells, Roman statuary ...