It’s in the Cards: An Exhibition at London’s Warburg Institute Offers a History of Tarot

It’s in the Cards: An Exhibition at London’s Warburg Institute Offers a History of Tarot

From Renaissance Milanese court painter Bonifacio Bembo to the Surrealists and even contemporary artist Claire Tabouret (who painted her home’s ceiling with images from an early-20th-century tarot deck), tarot—a centuries-old set of 78 cards—wafts in and out of art history. Between 1979 and 1998, French avant-garde artist Niki de Saint Phalle built a sculptural installation called the Tarot Garden outside Rome, and a newly opened show dedicated …