Climate science is the exploration of uncertainty. It starts with a question—a portal into a broader investigation, a way to make sense of disquieting realities and incomprehensible futures—that ...

Art matters in our lives. In this series, Lagniappe presents a different work each week from the collection of the New Orleans Museum of Art, with commentary from a curator. The opon ifa, or ...

In January, the New Orleans Museum of Art opened a retrospective of globally acclaimed Kenyan artist Wangechi Mutu. As part of this exhibition, I worked with the artist to select a number of works ...

Astrology and numerology are two ancient divination arts that have been practiced for centuries throughout human civilization. Astrology is based on the Babylonian belief that the movements of planets ...

An image of a neon sign of a palm in the window of a shop comes to mind for some people when you say the word fortune teller. But real fortune tellers are divination artists who use their natural ...

In 2020, the Smithsonian Folklife Festival will feature a program about the West African nation of Benin and how communities connect to their environment through spirituality and traditional knowledge ...