Emoji date back to 1999 when they first appeared on Japanese cell phones. But it’s history goes further than that, because before there were emoji, there were emoticons. Emoticons were the pictorial ...

And that love can continue through the teen years. There's more than just Greek and Roman mythology, too. The fantastic (in every sense of the word) books on this list draw from Indian, Norse, ...

The artist, who died at 85, used Indigenous imagery like the canoe and the buffalo the way Warhol used soup cans.

From Copenhagen's Little Mermaid to Scotland's Loch Ness, uncover seven magical destinations filled with mythology and ...

The best exhibitions, from painting and sculpture to video art, from major institutions and commercial galleries during the ...

A new exhibition in London traces the evolution of tarot from Renaissance Italy to the present day, with the card designs ...

From mythical guardians to symbols of transformation and terror, the snake has slithered its way into the annals of art ...

The Garden: Elsa Robinson’s sculptures, full-sized figures and a beckoning quilted cave to lie in are all part of her show surrounding a massive fabric tree, hand-stitched by the artist and her family ...

German historian and journalist Wieland Wagner called for Japanese to address the problems ... to the emperor system that functioned as the symbol of unity and continuity, and in this respect ...

The Lunar New Year, also known as the Chinese New Year, begins on a Wednesday and marks the Year of the Wood Snake.

The Nazis thought him ‘dangerous’, the communists spurned him as ‘decadent’ — now a new museum in Prague seeks to revive his ...