NEW YORK — When artist Luciano Garbati made his sculpture of Medusa holding Perseus’ severed head — an inversion of the centuries-old myth — feminism was not what he had in mind. He wasn’t thinking of ...

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Greek mythology recounts how Medusa earned her distinctive appearance: after she was raped by Poseidon in Athena’s temple, the goddess of war punished her with a head of snakes and the curse of ...

"b. Philadelphia, 1853. Pupil of the Bavarian Royal Academy, of Professors Strachuber, Ferdinand Barth, and Anton Seitz, Munich. first exhibited, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Phila- delphia, ...

Two public art sculptures debuted in New York City last week. Both in downtown Manhattan, one celebrates a real-life hero, the other a mythological anti-heroine. And while our cultural capital has ...

This time, Medusa is the one slaying the snakes. A statue of the Greek mythological figure clutching a severed head was unveiled Tuesday as a tribute to the #MeToo movement near the Manhattan ...