Obama's image was photoshopped in as part of an art gallery promotion, according to the gallery owner. Our fact-check sources: BBC, Aug. 1, 2015, Decoding the symbols on Satan's statue ...

At first glance, the square-shaped symbols looked like swastikas — a symbol Hitler’s Nazis made synonymous with death in World War II. But, as it turns out, they weren’t swastikas at all.

At around 20 different sites, carved and painted in caves and on boulders, archaeologists have discovered glyphs, pictograms, and other symbols, left behind thousands of years ago.

After appearing in the religious art of ancient Iran, the disc halo migrated across cultures at an astonishing pace. Matt Wilson explores how it connects Jesus, Buddha and Apollo.

This Navajo rug is for sale by Leonard Brown. It has whirling logs on it and an appraiser said it was from 1910. The symbol all but disappeared from Navajo artists’ wares after the 1930s, making ...

The Museum of Modern Art in New York City is displaying a new, more active version of the “handicapped” symbol alongside other culturally-relevant designs from the last few decades like the “@” symbol ...

Five symbols that comprise a rock art site in Iduhatty, Nilgiris district, and closely resemble symbols used at other rock and cave painting sites in Europe could point to the arrival of modern ...

At the very beginning of the “Symbol Sourcebook: An Authoritative Guide to International Graphic Symbols” (1972), the book’s author and one of the era’s most accomplished industrial ...

T he mighty watermelon—whether held in hand, depicted in art, or posted online as an emoji—is a powerful symbol for Palestinians.. The fruit has once again cropped up on countless social media ...

A scandalous symbol But if Dutch art gave the lobster an important supporting role, the surrealist movement in the mid 20th-century offered it a chance to be a star, thanks in large part to a now ...

Arts A new art exhibit at State House pays tribute to Massachusetts’s most iconic symbols “As a lifelong New Englander, this place is my muse.” ...