"Death of a Unicorn," directed by Alex Scharfman and starring Jenna Ortega and Paul Rudd, features something you don't hear about every day: Killer unicorns. The film, released in the US on March 28, ...

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, ...

Flowers, often part of Minoan and Egyptian art, were symbols of life, the afterlife, and rebirth, according to a study of ...

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 ...

Symbolism swept the colder parts of Europe and can be considered a response to Impressionism’s fascination with the visible ...

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 ...