The German philosopher Karl Marx famously said religion was “the opium for the masses.” Friedrich Nietzsche, Charles Darwin, ...

Sue Tilley sat for the artist three times a week for approximately nine months as he painted Sleeping By The Lion Carpet.

Sue Tilley was working in an unemployment office when she met artist Lucian Freud. His paintings of her in the 1990s are now famous, and very valuable. “Sleeping by the ...

In 'Blasphemy', Kushal Mehra argues that the notion of blasphemy is alien to India’s indigenous intellectual traditions.

We are told in Qur'an 95:4 and 5 that Allah (SWT) indeed 'created man in the best of moulds' and gave him the purest nature. By making man His vicegerent on earth, Allah has exalted man to a position ...

Lucian Freud, "Girl in Bed" (1952), oil on canvas (© The Lucian Freud Archive. All Rights Reserved 2026 / Bridgeman Images. Photo © National Portrait Gallery ...

The British artist Lucian Freud is best known for his raw, unflinching portraits. But depending on whom you ask, these artworks are either brutally pitiless or intimately genuine. The figurative ...

When a Christian does battle with Freud, it is no news. But a foray against Freud just published in the U.S. by British Clergyman Benjamin Gilbert Sanders, Christianity After Freud (Macmillan; $1.75), ...

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Jill Freud, the longtime actress whose final big-screen role was in Love Actually and who was the inspiration for Lucy in C.S. Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia, has died, according to her daughter Emma ...