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Alexander Anufriev, a nonconformist artist from the Soviet Union who, after surviving a devastating earthquake in his 20s, spent decades making expressive, brightly colored paintings of a single ...

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The Charleston Literary Festival presented the world premiere of the one-man play 'All the Beauty in the World," which is ...

Some believe the basilica on Vatican Hill was built over the martyred bones of the apostle Peter—but is that true? After ...

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