An exhibition at the Walters Art Musuem traces the appearences of cats in medieval manuscripts, from Europe, Asia, and the ...

(CNN) — So you want to live like you’re from the Middle Ages? Well, maybe that’s not a common aspiration, but nevertheless, it’s a subject that’s become Olivia M. Swarthout’s expertise. Swarthout is ...

An exhibition prioritizes the expensive, silent object over the lived, functional experience of the believer.

Derick Baegert, ‘Crucifixion,’ Dortmund, ca. 1475. Propsteikirche, Dortmund. “Dark Mirror: The Medieval Origins of Anti-Jewish Iconography,” by Sara Lipton, Metropolitan Books, 416 pages, $37 Those ...

Social media companies have a hard time when it comes to provocative art. One teacher in France was so incensed when Facebook removed a post of a close-up nude painted by Courbet, he sued the company.

Lily Stockman is a time traveler of the imagination: medieval Bruges, Trecento Siena, the gem markets of Jaipur, India, coastal Maine, 19th-century New England Shakers, and Los Angeles all flicker up ...

The Middle Ages aren’t just about heroic knights and epic battles. If there’s one thing that never fails to boost our mood, it’s medieval art! It’s colorful, creative, quirky, and goofy, and it ...

Animals with human eyes, elephants with dog snouts, and beavers with fish tails–were medieval artists just bad at painting? Not at all. There’s more to these quirky creatures than meets the eye. When ...

Adrift: A Medieval Wayward Folly is performed in a starkly empty black box theater at 59E59. A spare set piece, a ship’s mast, inspired by Hieronymus Bosch’s Ship of Fools, is perched in one corner.