Art, Faith, Sex and Controversy' investigates pop culture’s crypto-religious, uncanny symbols of immanence and transcendence.

Ronald Reagan's election sparked a counterrevolution in the arts community, with Dylan, Bono and Scorsese among those showing their faith, sometimes controversially, in work of that era.

to mock Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘The Last Supper.’" She then argued the criticism was fueled by religious hostility to "experimental art." "Why some church leaders are so often hostile to ...

The Last Supper, Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece ... Among the first to approve the restoration was the ancient Expertizer of Renaissance Art, Bernard Berenson, 89, who climbed a scaffold ...

A computer technician has claimed to have cracked a real Da Vinci code, by finding musical notes encoded in the masterpiece The Last Supper. Leonardo Da Vinci left clues to a 40-second musical ...

The organizers deny their tableau referenced Da Vinci’s Last Supper. But the imagery speaks ... This is not an unusual move in the art world, which has no shortage of references to classic ...

THE LAST SUPPER: Art, Faith, Sex, and Controversy in the 1980s, by Paul Elie What, you thought our long national nightmare of celebrating the 50th anniversary of “Saturday Night Live” was ...

Google searches for da Vinci’s The Last Supper have skyrocketed in the past few days. With so much interest in the work of art, it’s worth reconsidering what exactly it depicts — and how ...

Though organizers said the skit was an "interpretation of the Greek God [of wine and festivity] Dionysus," the visual similarities to "The Last Supper" were ... and art with celebrities like ...