In the middle of “The Simpsons Movie” (2007), news of an impending apocalypse reaches the citizens of Springfield. The congregants gathered for church immediately flee to Moe’s Bar for some strong ...

A moving statue of the Virgin Mary from 1480 can teach us today enduring lessons about faith and community, writes Neil MacGregor. Advertisement Meta: {"__typename ...

This ample publication, subtitled “On Beliefs and Peoples”, is intertwined with the objects on view in last year’s exhibition at the British Museum “Living with Gods: Peoples, Places and Worlds Beyond ...

(This is an excerpt from Neil MacGregor's new book, "A History of the World in 100 Objects," just published by Penguin.) Oct. 26 (Bloomberg) -- We've all grown so accustomed to using little round ...

Scenes from east frieze of the Parthenon, circa 438-432 BC — Elgin Collection/The British Museum Let’s finish up that conversation with the director of the British Museum. LACAYO: Do you worry about ...

MacGregor (A History of the World in 100 Objects), former director of the British Museum, assembles art objects to understand belief through the ages in a book that reads like a guided tour of the ...

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“You sit in a little darkened basement cubbyhole in the BBC speaking into a microphone, and you’ve got no idea whether anyone’s ever going to listen to it,” MacGregor tells The Australian. The former ...

When western diplomats seek concessions from Iran, they typically dish out tough rhetoric and threaten sanctions. Neil MacGregor, the cherub-faced director of the British Museum, uses a more refined ...

That was accompanied by a small guidebook and followed by 30 BBC radio broadcasts, which incorporated many voices – academics, experts, curators – as well as the chief narrator and interlocutor, Neil ...