What was it like being a traveling player in Elizabethan times? Touring the northeast for months, the intrepid young actors from Shakespeare & Company find out.

For Montreal artist James Kerr (known on the Internet as Scorpion Dagger), Renaissance art is a perfect medium for making fun of the modern era. His animated GIFs, inspired by art history, are as ...

PEMBROKE PINES, FLA. (WSVN) - Two students at Renaissance Charter School were taken into custody after being found in possession of weapons on campus, according to Pembroke Pines Police ...

His latest novel, “Lorenzo’s Daggers,” is a time-travel historical adventure set in modern-day New England and 15th century Renaissance Italy. McGraw provided this synopsis about his book: ...

Scorpion Dagger I guess first up I’d like to know how you started out making these weird Renaissance GIFs? I started making GIFs back in the winter of 2012.

It seems you can make a killer GIF out of just about anything — even Renaissance art. James Kerr, an artist specializing in collage, has steadily filled up his “Scorpion Dagger” Tumblr with ...

Instantly, the rusty weapons summon up the raucous world of the Elizabethan theatre. But how did they end up at the bottom of the Thames?

James Kerr’s Scorpion Dagger GIFs repurpose works from the old masters into funny, irreverent, and occasionally disturbing animations, which he’s been putting out at this point for two years.

Not everyone appreciates a GIF. And not everyone appreciates an early Renaissance masterpiece. But there’s more audience overlap than you’d think. Just ask Scorpion Dagger, née James Kerr, an ...

The Renaissance began in Italy in the 1400s. Newly made scientific discoveries meant that painters were depicting the human form with more anatomical accuracy, but their subjects were often ...

As the weather gets warmer, Renaissance Fair season gets into full swing in Southern California. Resurgence in the popularity of medieval and Renaissance culture after World War II led to the creat… ...

Renaissance images on paper transform into irreverent animations on your phone in artist James Kerr's forthcoming book.