Smoketown building to be renovated for health care tenants

The building at 706 E. Broadway will house a nonprofit and a pharmacy on the first floor. Eight apartments upstairs will ...
Essence

Bridal Bliss: WNBA Star Chiney Ogwumike Married Boxer Raphael Akpejiori With A Week's Worth Of Celebrations In Houston

Great things can happen when a woman shoots her shot. And for Chiney Ogwumike (now, Chiney Akpejiori), shooting shots is what she does best. The WNBA star first laid eyes on boxer Raphael Akpejiori on ...
NPR

An exhibit in New York examines master painter Raphael in the U.S. for the first time

For the first time in the United States, there's a major retrospective of the work of the Renaissance master Raphael. Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci are very familiar names, of course. But what ...
Hyperallergic

Inside the Met Museum’s Historic Raphael Exhibition

Detail of Raphael, "Saint Sebastian in Half Length" (c. 1502–3), tempera grassa and oil, with gold highlights, on wood (all photos Hrag Vartanian/Hyperallergic) “Nature created him as a gift to the ...
The New York Times

Raphael and the Renaissance of Divine Beauty

This blockbuster exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art humanizes a lapsed god of painting. Critic’s Pick This blockbuster exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art humanizes a lapsed god of ...
The New York Skyline

First major Raphael exhibition in the U.S. opens at The Met

Installation view of Raphael: Sublime Poetry, on view March 29–June 28, 2026, at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. All installation view photos are by Eileen Travell, Courtesy of The Met. Iconic works ...
Wall Street Journal

‘Raphael: Sublime Poetry’ Review: A Renaissance Master’s Staggering Range

There was nothing he couldn’t do. This was Renaissance biographer Giorgio Vasari’s conclusion about Raphael (1483-1520), the view of his contemporaries and his patrons, and a reasonable conclusion ...
The Star

Raphael Tuju rushed to hospital after condition worsens

He had been held at Karen Police Station, where his family and legal representatives pushed for immediate medical attention. “The examining doctor said the sugar level was at 1.9. This is what made me ...
Gothamist

Raphael finally visits the Met — after a very long wait

In his 37 years of life, Raffaello di Giovanni Santi, who would come to be known simply as Raphael, rose from painting altarpieces in countryside churches to grand frescoes in the Vatican palace, ...

Carlos Alcaraz loses to Sebastian Korda in the third round of the Miami Open

Carlos Alcaraz has been eliminated in the third round of the Miami Open, losing to Sebastian Korda in three sets.
The Art Newspaper

The Met’s blockbuster Raphael exhibition looks beyond the artist’s idealised Madonnas

With the last half-millennium in mind, Raphael has arguably been the most important artist of the western canon, casting his harmonious spell everywhere from the frescoed walls of the Vatican’s ...