Louis’s softly menacing effigy of a Haitian deity posed in a flood of daylight at the Gardner Museum. The handful of steps ...

The Vodou faithful sing, their voices rising above the gunfire erupting miles away as frantic drumbeats drown out their ...

Artist of memorials to family memory and sprits exhibited at the 2011 Venice Biennale, the Fowler Museum in Los Angeles, ...

who is initiated to become a "mambo," or Vodou priestess, told the Associated Press: "The spirits help you. They're always ...

Instead, white-clad women sang the praises of Olohoum, «an evil spirit.» «And when you participate in a Vodou ceremony as the president of the Haitian people, you show which side you’re on.» ...

Practitioners believe that all living things – including animals and plants – have spirits, and use rituals, prayers and dances to connect with them. But Vodou has long been "attacked by other ...