Mardi Gras is bursting with vibrant traditions, and few are as iconic as attending parades, indulging in delicious and colorful king cakes and donning elaborate Mardi Gras masks. But have you ever ...

Explore the history of Halloween costumes, from Samhain and frightening homemade masks to carved turnips, guising and early Halloween traditions in Maryland.

"First published in Germany under the title Faces: Eine Geschichte des Gesichts." This fascinating book presents the first cultural history and anthropology of the face across centuries, continents, ...

When Professor Jim Johnson began his ambitious project analyzing the history of the mask in Paris from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries, he could not have foreseen how important this object ...

Phyllis Galembo's photographs reveal the artistry, symbolism and cultural history behind Mexico's ritual masks in this Albany exhibition.