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, ...

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 ...

This segment is about how artists and writers rely on symbolism to help convey their ideas. The Narrator walks the viewer through a symbolic analysis of a photograph by Wang Fen, “On the Wall: Haiku 6 ...

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 ...

LEOMINSTER — Spend a fall evening at the Leominster Public Library taking a virtual tour chronicling the art, history, and symbolism of New England burial grounds with a trio of cemetery historians ...

“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 ...

Gerald Holtom's rarely exhibited original sketches for the peace symbol will go on view this March at the Imperial War Museum in London. Peace sign badges (courtesy ...

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 ...

A major new Vermeer exhibition at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam displays the artist's evocative and serene paintings of daily life – but they harbour secret, symbolic messages, writes Matthew Wilson.

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 ...