What hidden messages might other occult symbols convey? Are you ready to read the signs? Here, we decode five mystical ...

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

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Every Monday morning, artnet News brings you The Gray Market. The column decodes important stories from the previous week—and offers unparalleled insight into the inner workings of the art industry in ...

Ginger Peloquin’s latest sculpture, an oval covered with a mosaic of vibrant blue and green glass, is laden with symbolism. In Peloquin’s vision, the oval shape suggests both gathering and direction.

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 ...

Is art still art if you can’t actually see it? That puzzler pops into my head as I squint through barbed wire, trying to make out one of the newer works in the region’s booming public-art collection.