Matthew Wilson’s new book, The Hidden Language of Symbols, chronicles the buried visual cues of power, faith, uncertainty, and hope. Bertel Thorvaldsen, "Ganymede with Jupiter's Eagle" (1817), marble, ...

The new film "Death of a Unicorn," starring Jenna Ortega, features the mythical beast as a brutal killer. From purity to immortality, unicorns have been featured in works of art throughout the ...

If Symbolism is cursed first with forgettability, it is afflicted next with ill-definition. And if the former is a quirk of ...

Animals have a longstanding relationship with the fine and decorative arts. From claw-footed Chippendale furniture to William Wegman's photographs of Weimaranars, animals have attracted and encouraged ...

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 ...

Please, no jokes about little dolls being used as pincushions, or incredible zombie hulks stalking through the night. Voodoo art–that is, the ritual artifacts that are used in voodoo ceremonies in ...

Originally designed for the occasion of the 1989 Women’s March in Washington, DC, which opposed efforts to overturn the 1973 Roe v Wade US Supreme Court ruling legalizing abortion, the poster features ...