For devotees of this 600-year-old esoteric art, a trip to northern Italy is ... The city’s wealth made it a hub for medieval and Renaissance artists and architects. Osvaldo Menegazzi, 89 ...

He met the artists in "Esoteric" through the San Jose-founded Pacific Art Collective, and they all share a graffiti background as well as the urge to delve into live painting and abstraction.

Over the past two decades, watchmaking’s ancient métiers d’art—the decorative techniques used to embellish watches—have undergone a renaissance ... more exotic and esoteric visual arts ...