Some art historians have said that “Head of a Skeleton With a Burning Cigarette” was merely van Gogh, still an art student at the time, fooling around with an anatomy exercise.

Almost anywhere you go in southeastern Michigan ― anywhere with Art Deco buildings or Gothic Revival churches ― if you look up, you’ll see fascinating works of art like gargoyles, corbels ...

Halloween is a time for many to welcome the mysterious, bizarre and spooky. But while lots of us switch out the skulls for snowmen come November, there are many who embrace a modern Gothic style ...

Installation view of “Gothic Modern: From Darkness to Light” at Norway’s National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design in Oslo. Photo: Ina Wesenberg.

The content discusses the Gothic art movement from 1140 to 1500 AD in Europe, emphasizing its philosophical underpinnings that combined faith and reason. Gothic architecture, exemplified by ...

More awesome art at Frankensteinia blog. A 1931 illustration by William P. Welsh, for Woman’s Home Companion magazine, illustrating Winter — and a striking precursor to the Bride Of Frankenstein.

With circular tower and porches, wrought-iron balustrades, Steamboat Gothic represented the last word in elegance to riverboat captains of the 1850s, is one of the most elaborate forms of U.S ...

On the long list of artists to suffer the fatal derision of Nazi Germany was one of Germany's greatest sculptors, Ernst Barlach. He died in 1938, shunned by his townspeople, condemned (falsely) as ...

It’s not a shocker, really, that the figures lifted from one of American art’s most famous images and made enormous and three-dimensional have proved so popular. There is something both ...

When: Aug. 30-Nov. 16 Where: Cincinnati Art Museum, 953 Eden Park Drive. Cost: Museum admission is free, but entrance to the "American Gothic" exhibition will have a fee: $8, $5 for students with ID.