The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey will welcome back the acclaimed Tanglewood Marionettes for a kid-friendly production of Perseus and Medusa on Saturday, September 27th at 11:00 a.m. at the F.M.

NEW YORK — When artist Luciano Garbati made his sculpture of Medusa holding Perseus’ severed head — an inversion of the centuries-old myth — feminism was not what he had in mind. He wasn’t thinking of ...

"b. Philadelphia, 1853. Pupil of the Bavarian Royal Academy, of Professors Strachuber, Ferdinand Barth, and Anton Seitz, Munich. first exhibited, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Phila- delphia, ...

Greek mythology recounts how Medusa earned her distinctive appearance: after she was raped by Poseidon in Athena’s temple, the goddess of war punished her with a head of snakes and the curse of ...

Two public art sculptures debuted in New York City last week. Both in downtown Manhattan, one celebrates a real-life hero, the other a mythological anti-heroine. And while our cultural capital has ...

Many of the constellations have epic tales of heroism with a lot of romance mixed in, both in good and bad ways. One of the best is the saga of Perseus the Hero, a constellation perched fairly high in ...