The 'Figures of the Fool' exhibition shows how perceptions of madness have changed from the Middle Ages to the 19th century.

Noah-like, Stanley Kramer has packed a cross section of humanity aboard his microcosmic Ship of Fools. There's a washed-up baseball player, a Nazi, a German Jew, a countess, two emancipated ...

This animated documentary stitches together colorful and ragged fragments of the personal life of Alia, a Lebanese woman. Growing up facing war and displacement, searching and not finding freedom ...

1530) As the exhibition title “Saints, Sinners, Lovers, and Fools” suggests, one section of the exhibition focuses on the weird and wonderful comedic scenes of the era. Sometimes paintings ...

A book, a film, a song, a poem, a painting. What is the one work of art that had a lasting impact on your life? International celebrities from the world of arts and beyond, share the art that ...

Steering oars such as these appear in funerary carvings and paintings (see final image), and on ship models, right into the New Kingdom, a thousand years and more after Khufu's time. The ship is ...

His 1986 hit "Ship of Fools" reached No. 27 on the Billboard Hot 100. By Melinda Newman Karl Wallinger, who was a short-lived member of Welsh rock band The Waterboys and then helmed his solo ...

Character profiles for new BBC Two sitcom, House Of Fools, starring Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer. Vic Vic Reeves is a long term and mostly unwanted guest in Bob’s house, always treating the place ...

Scott Burton, one of America’s leading sculptors, entrusted his estate to the museum in 1989, when he was sick with AIDS, to ensure his place in art history. It turned out to be a bad idea.

No one can really decide where April Fools' Day comes from, but one thing we can all agree on is that it’s hilarious to prank your mates on the 1 April. Some people and organisations have ...

New Orleans Film Festival, Austin Film Festival, Slamdance, Rhode Island International Film Festival, Sarasota International Film Festival, Sidewalk Film Festival, Woods Hole Film Festival, Art of ...

Up until yesterday, the world was under the assumption that Rachael ‘Raygun’ Gunn was retiring! It sure seemed that way with ...