Standing before a masterpiece in a hushed museum gallery, most visitors admire the brushwork, the colors, the composition. They walk away thinking they've seen everything. Yet many of the world's most ...

Before there were rainbow flags and pronoun pins, queer folks had to get creative. We couldn't just say it; we had to signal it. So we spoke in colors, flowers, and shapes that carried entire worlds ...

From a string of high-profile real-life art heists to the fiercely guarded identity of anonymous street artists like Banksy, it's easy to think modern art holds a monopoly on mystery. But you don't ...

San Francisco’s iconic Victorian style homes, such as the Painted Ladies of Full House fame, weren’t built merely as protection against the elements. Like 19th century Klout Scores, these houses were ...

The Fourth of July is upon us, and what can be more wholesomely all-American than Dogs Playing Poker? The turn-of-the-(last)-century lithograph by Cassius Marcellus Coolidge (1844–1934) has had an ...

From emoji spells to WitchTok, the mysterious, 600-year-old emblems of tarot and spell books are still resonating in the 21st Century. Clare Thorp explores the intriguing world of art, symbolism and ...