If you were to make a visit to the Museum of Biblical Art, what would you expect? I didn’t have a definite idea, more like half-formed visions of rosaries, painted wooden crosses, rosy Madonnas. The ...

New York’s Museum of Biblical Art (MOBIA) is about to do something daring: exhibit art with a less-than-obvious connection to the Bible. “The Wanderer,” which opens Friday and runs through December 23 ...

In most taxonomies of religion in America, the intersection of 61st Street and Broadway on the Upper West Side is not considered Bible country. So in 1997, when Ena Heller, fresh out of graduate ...

A gold casting after Michelangelo's "Madonna," the only one of its kind in existence, on display at the Museum of Biblical Arts in Dallas A bronze casting after Michelangelo's Florentine "Pieta," on ...

The Museum of Biblical Art in Manhattan will close in June, having failed to secure a new space after the sale this year of its current home, the American Bible Society building near Columbus Circle.

New York’s Museum of Biblical Art (MOBIA) will close its doors this summer, after operating for a decade. The institution’s current Donatello exhibition (see Discover Renaissance Master Donatello at ...

IN a surprisingly assured exhibition for a fairly fledgling museum, MoBiA has mounted several dozen works by some of the luminaries of modern and postmodern art. Marc Chagall and Giorgio di Chirico, ...

The Museum of Biblical Art announced today that it has tapped art historian Richard P. Townsend to be its new director, taking the place of its founding director, Ena Heller, who stepped down last ...

"Adoration of the Magi" (circa 1375-85), tempera on panel by Bartolo di Fredi (Courtesy of Ministero per i Beni e le Attivita Culturali, Pinacoteca Nazionale di Siena) The Museum of Biblical Art in ...

One by one, the Master’s figures will take their leave. Saint John the Evangelist. Abraham and Isaac; two little “profetini,” or child prophets; a gaunt figure known as the Zuccone, whose quizzically ...

Reporting from Berkeley — A 19th century German nun who was prone to trance-like states of consciousness has been a divine inspiration for many films involving Jesus dating back to 1895, according to ...