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’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 ...

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.

With pieces by Donatello, Nanni di Banco, Luca della Robbia, and Filippo Brunelleschi, the exhibition showcases “work that normally never leaves Italy, and, indeed in some cases, has never left ...

That is a fresh approach for a museum committed to art that, even if it is modern or contemporary, is rooted in a religious and narrative tradition. “It shows a new direction,” said Scanlan, noting ...

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 ...

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 ...