It is easy to minimize the importance of symbols in culture. Art tends to focus on existential symbolism, leap-frogging over the ways in which we interpret symbols constantly, in the form of letters, ...

TERESE TSE Bartholomew, a curator at the Asian Art Museum for 38 years, has been searching for hidden meanings in Chinese art for much of her life. “When I look at a piece of art or an object, I want ...

Ahead of Sotheby’s gold-only auction, we look at how the pricey material has been used throughout history "The language of gold remains universal," said Sotheby's in a press release, "The precious ...

In late 19th century Paris an artistic movement to explore the mystical, from incubi to chimeras and femininity to saints as well as an assortment of mythological creatures was on the rise. What first ...

PORTSMOUTH — The New Hampshire Art Association is pleased to announce that Dr. Andrew Laurie Stangel, Professor of Art History at the UNH, will be giving an illustrated lecture on some of the major ...

The ibex is far from a humble mountain goat—it’s one of history’s most enduring artistic symbols. So prolific is its presence in prehistoric art, in fact, that a new study suggests the animal held ...

“Witchcraft” offers a deep dive into the many facets of a centuries-old tradition in the Western world, weaving more than 400 classic and contemporary artworks with essays and interviews by what ...

Is Michelangelo’s David the new Pepe the Frog? For months, posters featuring heroic black-and-white close-ups of classical sculpture, including the David, have been popping up at college campuses ...

The injunction of a group show centered around the multivalent flower is to wander the field and pluck what suits you. Left: Gabriella Hirst, "How to Make A Bomb" (2015–ongoing), digital print ...

AT the Friday evening discourse delivered at the Royal Institution on November 17, the audience had the unusual, but instructive, experience of hearing, in Sir Herbert Baker's account of “Symbolism in ...