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 ...

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 ...

The Museum of Biblical Art, a 10-year-old Manhattan institution which “celebrates and interprets art inspired by the Bible,” announced Tuesday it will shut down in June. The closing will come after ...

NEW YORK (RNS) The tiny yet sophisticated Museum of Biblical Art is losing its director, much of its financial lifeline within three years and could lose its home near Lincoln Center. That triple ...

Most notably from a filmmaking perspective, The Passion of the Christ marked the beginning of a new approach to “biblical” filmmaking.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

NEW YORK (RNS) On the heels of what seemed like its greatest triumph — a magnificent display of sculptures by the Renaissance pioneer Donatello — a small but important museum in midtown Manhattan that ...

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 ...

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.