St. Faustina Kowalska said that in hell ‘there are caverns and torture pits where each type of agony differs from the other.’ In the history of the Catholic Church, various saints and blesseds have ...

“There is a hell. Not a very original statement, you think. I will repeat it, then: There is a hell! Echo it for me, at the right moment, in the ear of one friend, and of another, and another.” So ...

Worlds collided last month in Brooklyn. In a dark neighborhood of warehouses called DUMBO, in a theater usually reserved for edgy bands and performance artists, real actors performed, straight up and ...

Hell’s Kitchen was renamed in 1959, but Clinton didn’t really stick. Clearly these are no names for the utopia that some of our most committed urbanists have started to envisage on the Far West Side.

Paradise and hell are depicted as a dichotomy, two separate worlds, a cause and effect, in Renaissance paintings such Hieronymus Bosch’s triptych ‘Garden of Earthly Delights.’ Good and evil and ...

Horror fans have a tough row to plow. On top of the quizzical looks and people accusing them of murdering small animals, there’s the fact that no one seems to take the world of horror as seriously as ...

The architecture of the column re-interpreted, California’s dark history of lynchings reenacted and an artist who takes pictures of Hell (literally). Plus, figurative paintings that rely on the ...