The Vatican unveils its project for the Venice Biennale of Art: inside a women’s prison
Vatican City AP The Vatican on Monday unveiled its groundbreaking project for the upcoming Venice Biennale of Art – a multimedia installation located inside Venice’s women’s prison, created with the active participation of inmates and artists and open to the public under strict security conditions. Pope Francis himself is expected to visit the Holy See […]
Sculpture of John Paul II with rock, red water makes waves
Warsaw, Poland AP A new statue that depicts the late Pope St John Paul II throwing a rock into red water has provoked debate in his native Poland and revived memories of a 1999 Italian sculpture that showed him crushed under a rock, to which the new work was intended as a counter-statement. The statue […]