For my birthday a couple of weeks ago, a dear girlfriend organized a ladies luncheon for me. It was touching, especially since I had not had a luncheon in my honor for more than twenty years. I had ...

Hercules and Omphale (detail), by F Boucher (1735). Source: Wikimedia Commons/F Boucher/Public domain. Many cultures feature gods, demigods, heroes, and other mythological beings with both male and ...

Upon entering Harmonia Rosales’s show Entwined, on view now through May 1 at UC Santa Barbara’s Art, Design & Architecture Museum (AD&A), one could easily imagine having stumbled into a gallery ...

In Yoruba mythology, she is one of 16 Orishas (gods) sent by Olodumare. (The supreme god). Yemoja descended on a rope to create the earth with other Orishas(gods). She is the patron of the river in ...