Revelation contains many symbols. Some of them are easy to understand, some are hard, and some are just paradoxical. Ironically, the paradoxical ones can be particularly easy to figure out. Here’s ...

The 20th century gave us works that defied traditions across the arts: for instance, Igor Stravinsky’s 1913 The Rite of Spring, a ballet whose setting, in a pagan world, and enactment of human ...

I have never read a word of Dan Brown, but that does not mean that I can't give Brown’s latest bestseller, “The Lost Symbol,” a thorough review based on the cover. The book appears to be the coming-of ...

Whether in advertising, art, or architecture, our lives are swarmed with symbols whose meanings have developed and varied over time and place. While a decorative owl presiding over the Library of ...

Years before Colin Kaepernick took a knee, these people stood up. Black and white, male and female, enslaved and free, they publicly opposed racism and violence and fought for freedom and equality.

As the nation prepares to celebrate its 250th anniversary, two newly released visual histories of America tell significantly different stories of the struggle for freedom and unity. The American story ...