It’s the United States of America in the late 19th century, a moment of industrialization and urbanization contributing to a heightened concern for deceased kin and bereaved Americans questioning the ...

Step into a contemporary gallery today, and mystical, spiritual artworks greet you like old friends. Once dismissed as fringe or overly eccentric, these works now dominate major exhibitions. The ...

As museums and biennials revisit Surrealism, outsider practices and Indigenous cosmologies, a pattern emerges that suggests a renewed turn toward spirituality, mysticism and alternative knowledge ...

The Swedish artist Hilma af Klint (1862-1944) was a closet radical. In public, she was a typical churchgoing Lutheran. And as an award-winning artist trained at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in ...

The exhibition called “The Spiritual in Art: Abstract Painting 1890–1985,” which Maurice Tuchman has organized with the assistance of Judi Freeman at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, is the kind ...

“Conjuring the Spirit World: Art, Magic, and Mediums” delves into the eerie art and artifacts of the Spiritualist movement at The Ringling. This highly dramatic exhibition unfolds in two acts, first ...