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Tarot, Origins & Afterlives

Tarot cards on display.

Warburg Institute, Woburn Square, London WC1H 0AB, United Kingdom

While I, myself, often pay a very nice lady on McDougal street $45 dollars to spread my future on top of a table, you don’t have to believe in the power of Tarot cards to appreciate their imagery and history. At London’s Warburg Institute, the fortune-telling tool finally gets a spotlight. “Tarot, Origins & Afterlives” explores the cards’ roots and archetypes, while tracking its meanings, influence, and designs all the way from Renaissance Europe to, well, modern-day Greenwich Village. —Carolina de Armas