The witchy folklore of this mysterious Massachusetts city draws thousands of visitors every October, but residents offer ...

An installation at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Mass., uses artifacts and primary sources to tell the true story of the ...

Today’s Salem is a strange place, at once alluring and off-putting. This former haunt of terrified, grudge-holding (and doomed) Puritans bursts with witch museums, statues, tours, workshops ...

The photo, which appears in Taggart’s book called “SÉANCE,” is displayed at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem in an exhibit called “Conjuring the Spirit World: Art, Magic, and Mediums ...

"Conjuring the Spirit World: Art, Magic and Mediums" is on view through Feb. 2 at Peabody Essex Museum, East India Square, 161 Essex St., Salem. Museum admission $12 (library discount) to $40 (two ...

The Peabody Essex Museum installed “Salem Stories” in September 2020. The exhibition, which has an open-ended run, consists of 26 displays, or “vignettes,” presented in alphabetical order.

Despite a healthy and engaged crowd, there was a definite hush among visitors to the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s magical exhibition “Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300-1350” last week.

A show at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago challenges the timeworn critics’ contention that painting is dead, expanding the idea of what painting can be. By Jane L. Levere This article is ...

A similar approach can be seen at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, which regularly hosts local magicians as part of its ongoing exhibition Conjuring the Spirit World: Art ...

The American Independence Museum will welcome Real Pirates from Salem, Massachusetts to historic Folsom Tavern on Nov. 7.