At the heart of Venice’s globally renowned St. Mark's Square sits Biblioteca Marciana, a library filled with the ghosts of a ...

Long perceived as unsettling, the female genital area has been subjected for millennia to more or less invasive acts aimed at ...

On the ceiling of the chapel where the cardinals elected Pope Leo XIV is Michelangelo’s kaleidoscopic hieroglyphic — pointing ...

There’s nowhere quite like Athens. The mix of ancient ruins and modern city life is pretty surreal, and the juxtaposition of a 2500-year-old temple with a corner restaurant serving authentic local ...

and the problem that lies at the root of Platonic philosophy: How do we know what is real and what’s merely illusion? Plato’s most far-reaching work is today his most widely read, indeed the ...

Since the dawn of philosophy, thinkers from Plato to Kant have considered how beauty affects human experience, and whether it ...

Alva Noë, chair of UC Berkeley’s philosophy department, delivered this year’s Presidential Lecture in the Arts and Humanities ...

While the movement of celestial bodies might not quite play the "music of the spheres"—as poetically imagined by the ancient Greek philosopher Pythagoras—each star does still resonate with ...