A giant sculpture, La Grande Dame, by Leonora Carrington arrives at Sotheby's with record prices being paid for the ...

and indeed borrowing the personal occult symbol of that wizard as his own personal cipher, as historian Walter W. Woodward reports. While Connecticut was founded by draconian theocrats ...

Occultism and nation-building have been strangely intertwined, particularly in the gestation of America, writes Ed Simon ...

From a tentative interest in the 2010s, spirituality has experienced turbo-charged growth in recent years, with tarot ...

The bucolic county of West Sussex, on England’s South Coast, may seem an unlikely place to track down fine examples of Surrealism, but tucked away among its rolling hills is a reimagined hunting ...

The groundbreaking Belgian surrealist Rene Magritte introduced many incongruous symbols in his celebrated ... but within different settings and contexts. Art Gallery of NSW’s upcoming summer ...

Another reference to Japanese occult stories and urban legends is the use of “4:44”, which, in Japan, is the time of night when paranormal oddities supposedly occur, as well as the number “4 ...

Some art museums overawe with the sweep of their collections. Others thrill with a few perfectly placed masterworks. The best of them embody their cities’ ambitions and fulfill an ideal ...