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, ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

PORTSMOUTH — The New Hampshire Art Association is pleased to announce that Dr. Andrew Laurie Stangel, Professor of Art History at the UNH, will be giving an illustrated lecture on some of the major ...

This segment is about how artists and writers rely on symbolism to help convey their ideas. The Narrator walks the viewer through a symbolic analysis of a photograph by Wang Fen, “On the Wall: Haiku 6 ...

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 ...