Gothic Renaissance has packed its racks with patterned black T-shirts, zipper-lined pants, and vinyl and tulle skirts of varying lengths. (The lingerie and fetish wear is tucked in a back corner.) ...

The word Gothic came back with a different meaning in the Renaissance. It was used to describe medieval culture, particularly art and architecture. People in the Middle Ages had not called their ...

In the late 19th century, artists were going goth. Works like Vincent van Gogh’s Head of a Skeleton With a Burning Cigarette (1886), Edvard Munch’s By the Deathbed (1893) and Hugo Simberg’s The Garden ...