Mughal Art and Architecture
Alex2024-05-16T04:18:17+00:00A confluence of cultures, the Mughal Empire left monumental architecture and exquisitely-detailed art unique to the subcontinent.
Edward Said: Arabic Literature and Palestine
Alex2024-11-15T18:30:34+00:00Among the most eloquent, most tireless and most passionate voices of the post-colonial Arab world, Said was both objective and revolutionary, both demanding and understanding - his plight for Palestine as full of idealism as disappointments.
In Ruins, Tikal
Alex2024-04-27T08:48:47+00:00The Mayan civilization was among the most advanced in the ancient world. In Tikal especially, a dynastic rule lasted 2,000 years, the first water filtration system in the Americas was invented, and observers could predict a solar eclipse with the naked eye alone.
Richard Serra: Sculpture and Space
Alex2024-04-08T17:00:31+00:00"Vico said the only things we really understand are the things we have made ourselves." - Remembering Richard Serra (Nov. 2, 1938 - March 26, 2024)
In Ruins, Bagan
Alex2025-05-10T19:16:51+00:00This city of 3,000 temples is only a remnant of Myanmar's golden age. But it's still, as Marco Polo described it, "One of the finest sights in the world."
Yayoi Kusama: Infiniteness
Alex2024-04-08T17:02:53+00:00Kusama saw hallucinations from the age of ten, suffered nervous breakdowns beginning in her 20s, and has had a lifelong fear of sex. She’s channeled all of it into her art.
Lucian Freud: Self-Portraits
Alex2024-03-18T01:26:02+00:00Everything is autobiographical, Lucian Freud said. What we make, why it’s made, who we're drawn to, why we can't forget.
Intellectual Equals: Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald
Alex2024-03-17T23:34:30+00:00Sometimes our lives weave such drama that fiction can’t compare. And the true story of Zelda and Scott surpasses the greatness and sadness of Gatsby.
Kazimir Malevich: Suprematism and the Russian Avant-Garde
Alex2024-03-11T19:14:41+00:00As ground zero for minimalism and abstraction, The Black Square is hailed as the "most famous, most enigmatic and most frightening painting known to man."
José Clemente Orozco: Man of Fire
Alex2024-08-04T03:07:57+00:00I first came across Orozco in a 2012 𝘛𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘴 article. I loved the paintings so much, I clipped the pages and saved them. But they didn’t prepare me for this - his famed muralles, 57 in all, that left me in awe.