From village festivals to royal courts, dancing was central to medieval life. Some steps were joyful, others scandalous, and a few even dangerous ...

Casting aside old ideas in order to progress forward is a typical theme of most protests, yet there are some movements that use the past in order to stand up against the future.

Our writer sits down with Purdue Art History professor Beth Woodward to explore the under-appreciated nuances of Renaissance art.

From flowing capes and chainmail tunics to banquet-style dining and moody, medieval tablescapes, couples are embracing a ...

A year and a half ago, a team of Times journalists had a simple ask: Look — really look — at a work of art for 10 minutes. The response has blown them away.

Ahead of a major reinstallation in 2027, the Toledo Museum of Art is filling gaps in its collection, the Kiddush cup filled ...

A new exhibition at The Met Cloisters makes the case that gender and sexual fluidity were an essential part of Medieval religious art.

Evidence from caves in France and Spain shows Neanderthals made symbolic art long before Homo sapiens, reshaping ideas about ...

Pregnancy and childbirth presented the medieval expectant mother with a whole host of challenges and dangers. Just as today, there was a lot of instruction on how a pregnant woman should behave to ...

Can you chip in? This year we’ve reached an extraordinary milestone: 1 trillion web pages preserved on the Wayback Machine. This makes us the largest public repository of internet history ever ...