A show at the American Academy of Arts and Letters highlights the delicate art of refusing to play the game of identity ...

Since 2021, the Immanuel Presbyterian Church in Koreatown has been home to the My Chemical Romance (MCR) fan event, where thousands of guests show up each year in their darkest attire. Though it has ...

Haunted Mound’s members (this month at least) – Sematary, Hackle, Anvil, Buckshot and Ghost Mountain – are packing out venues ...

Five, six, grab your crucifix - and Robert Smith, because World Goth Day has arrived. First suggested on a MySpace blog in ...

It wasn’t a funeral taking place; it was the Gothic Takeover at Lakeside Amusement ... and crossovers with emo, steampunk, pinup and Victorian dressing. Here are a few of the best fits spotted ...

Themes of morbidity, trauma, spirituality, and the uncanny that reappear in Gothic art have proven to have an enduring appeal, not least, it seems, for those faced with the uncertainties inherent ...

“Gothic was an innovative, progressive architecture,” says Robert Bork, a professor of art history at the University of Iowa and a Gothic architecture expert. “It was a futuristic ...

artists were going goth. Works like Vincent van Gogh’s Head of a Skeleton With a Burning Cigarette (1886), Edvard Munch’s By the Deathbed (1893) and Hugo Simberg’s The Garden of Death ...

“If it’s old, odd, authentic, macabre and has an interesting history, it more than likely can find a home in the home of the modern Gothic,” says Paul Gambino in his most recent book, The ...

Wood’s inspiration for American Gothic was sparked by a leisurely drive around Eldon, Iowa, one spring afternoon in the company of a young art student, John Sharp. Just outside town, they ...

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 ...