In 1920, a young girl named Rosalia Lombardo died of pneumonia caused by the Spanish Flu, just one week before her second ...

Created in the Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo, Sicily, by photographer and artist Matthew Rolston, Vanitas: The Palermo Portraits is an evocative new body of work that addresses intertwined narratives ...

PASADENA, CA - ArtCenter College of Design announces Vanitas: The Palermo Portraits, a site-specific installation debuting a significant triptych from artist and alumnus Matthew Rolston’s most recent ...

Today, in places you may not have known but now feel the need to visit at least once in your life, we’re going to take a look at the Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo. As its name suggests, this site is ...

If there’s a city that strikes you with such a strong cultural mix that at times you’ll feel like you’re in Africa, at other times in the Orient, and occasionally even in Europe, it’s Sicilian Palermo ...

One of Bristol Airport's new routes for 2025 will allows holidaymakers to fly direct to a popular European destination. EasyJet will be departing Bristol Airport and flying to Palermo, Sicily twice a ...

One thing I enjoy about returning to a destination is the chance to update the outdated impressions I’ve held in my mind from previous visits. Europe is always changing — and on my last visit to ...

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT - Sicily is home to an astonishing burial site that is fast becoming a haven for dark tourism. Sicily is renowned for its stunning beaches, charming villages and towns, as ...

The Capuchin Catacombs in Palermo, Sicily, have been home to non-adult mummified remains since the seventeenth century CE. Despite the increasing numbers of scientific studies conducted at this site, ...

One recent sweltering summer afternoon, photographer Ethan James Green and I escaped the heat by visiting the Ukrainian Museum in New York to see “Peter Hujar: Rialto.” In the dog days of a New York ...

‘Peter Hujar lived in the Ukrainian neighbourhood in New York, yet few Ukrainian-Americans knew about him or his work,’ says Peter Doroshenko, director of The Ukrainian Museum in New York, where there ...

An exhibition on the little known prequel of Hujar’s influential career is explored at New York’s Ukrainian Museum. Speaking with director Peter Doroshenko, we unpack the years that shaped the ...