Call it Modern Gothic. As cringe-worthy as my term for it is, there’s a lot of work around right now that fits the designation. Young critics are keen on it, magazines are featuring it, galleries are ...

As Halloween looms, we are surrounded by Gothic artefacts; plastic skeletons, decorative tombstones, and pumpkins are scattered across suburban lawns, and the boundary between what is real and what is ...

Horace Walpole, the inventor of modern gothic, returns to haunt the spooky house he built in a revealing exhibition of masterpieces and grim curiosities Horace Walpole was an aesthetic rebel against ...

Why is the Gothic such a persistent cultural trend? This fascinating documentary explores the resurgence of the Gothic in contemporary culture. Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book was immensely popular ...

Cassidy was an updates editor whose main responsibility is to write and edit articles on a range of home improvement topics. Her passion for lifestyle writing began with her editorial apprenticeship ...

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 ...