For months, cryptic messages have appeared on the social media of Andrew Lloyd Webber about the pending return to New York of ...

Facebook is heating up competition with Snapchat with the purchase of Masquerade, which makes imaging software that jazzes up videos and selfies with fun filters, masks and other special effects.

Commedia dell’arte (16th and 17th century Italy): This early form of improvisational theater employed masks to signify recurring stock characters like Pantalone (the greedy old fool with a bony ...

Venice has long been associated with masks, thanks to its history of carnival and masquerade. Their theatrical nature might lead to an assumption masks were always worn to deceive or seduce.