The arts and spiritual life share a profound and ancient bond. From prehistoric cave paintings to the soaring cathedrals of ...

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 ...

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.

In this series, Lagniappe presents a different work each week from the collection of the New Orleans Museum of Art, with commentary from a curator. The pomegranate fruit, with a crimson skin that ...

From prehistoric rock art to Beyoncé's pregnancy photographs, symbolism and art are a key aspect of human behavior and have been since the very beginning—but how it evolved has so far mystified ...

National art star Chakaia Booker's exhibit "Eradication: A Form of Obsession" opened at the Newcomb Art Gallery on the Tulane University campus Thursday (Aug. 28), instantly becoming the show not to ...

Symbolism perhaps suffers from middle-child syndrome. From the storied vanguardism of its older sibling, Impressionism, to the legendary antics of its younger ones, Fauvism and Cubism, it can be easy ...