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, ...

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 ...

Beyonce and Jay-Z shook up the world Saturday with the surprise release of their joint album Everything is Love. While the collaboration may have seemed inevitable—the couple released their first ...

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 ...

Curator Hend Al-Mansour asks the artists of Art Is... Awakening about the symbolism Curator Hend Al-Mansour asks the artists of Art Is... Awakening about the symbolism in their work.

The first discoveries in Cádiz date to the early 20th century. In 1914, French scholar Abbé Henri Breuil documented dozens of ...

The exhibition highlights the creative ways in which 6 contemporary artists combine the acts of writing with a range of media—including calligraphy, transcriptions of archival materials, graphic ...

Aims and limits of iconology -- Tobias and the angel -- Botticelli's mythologies: a study in the neo-Platonic symbolism of his circle -- An interpretation of Mantegna's 'Parnassus.'--Raphael's Stanza ...