Grant Wood’s American Gothic (1930) is a painting that needs no introduction. It’s a deceptively simple work of art—a seemingly straightforward portrait of an old farmer and his daughter, pictured in ...

While Europe is home to the most impressive, original Gothic cathedrals, you can find churches in the Gothic-revival style right here in Louisiana.

There is a peculiar type of American darkness, and it is one suffused with light. Bright sunshine masks a whited-out evil, smiling faces conceal the weight of sadness. It is different from the ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The enlightenment that swept aside medieval Europe's dusty faith and folklore in favor of bright modernity and reason had ...

An icon of Americana is coming to New York for the first time in nearly 20 years: Grant Wood’s American Gothic (1930) will travel to the Whitney Museum of American Art for the 2018 retrospective ...

A major exhibition touring Europe argues that modern artists who turned to the dark side were inspired by Gothic art from the Middle Ages. By Nina Siegal Reporting from Helsinki Why did Vincent van ...

Tiny Eldon in southeast Iowa has been losing population, jobs and business for nearly five decades, but one woman is trying to turn things around with a focus on tourism centered around the ...

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 a ...

The artist behind a new gothic audio-visual art installation said it was a "love letter to England". Gothic Revival was commission by NN Contemporary Art in Northampton and combines the town's ...