Museumgoers can peruse more than 300 pieces of art from 90 European and American institutions. These items follow the fool across hundreds of years, beginning in the Middle Ages and ending in the ...

MONTREAL — The fool takes center stage in a Flemish painting show now on view at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Although the English title, Saints, Sinners, Lovers and Fools, leads with ...

Later, in the age of reason and democracy, the parodist of royal dignity became a mirror of the universal condition: Dostoevsky’s “holy fool” and Picasso’s grubby clowns; Stan Laurel and ...

Shakespeare’s contemporaries, however, remembered a real fool. Will Somer was, to borrow from vaudeville, Henry VIII’s “banana man,” a fooling foil to the royal straight man.

S ho uld you answer a fool according to his folly? This question haunts the pages of an erudite new book. Peter K. Andersson, a historian at Örebro University in Sweden, has written a short and ...

The Fool Has Appeared in Art for Centuries. What Do These Portrayals of the Complex Character Say About Us? A new exhibition at the Louvre takes visitors on a visual journey, exploring how the ...