“I am not a hero. I am not a special person, because no one should ever think you have to be special to help others. I did what any decent person would have done.”
Miep Gies: What Any Decent Person Would Have Done
The Curious Life of James Castle
Working with soot, spit, and found objects, James Castle produced beautiful art.
Big Bill Broonzy
The story of the remarkable Big Bill Broonzy’s life, music, and influence.
Tangled Dürer: The Six Knots (ca. before 1521)
“The wires of Dürer’s knots do, in a sense, chart the paths of entwined networks — of knowledge, commodities, cultural and material translation, repeating idealistically within a flourishing system.”
What is Fela’s True Legacy?
Fela was no gentleman; he used music as a weapon. He believed in a free Africa and had problems with authoritarian and military regimes.
Illustrating a classic –revisiting artworks on The Conference of the birds
Art historian Soma Ghosh examines the many versions of illustrations for ‘The Conference of the birds’ or the ‘Mantiq al tair’ by Attar of Nishapur
Freedom Songs
Dr. Gavin Brown speaks about the way in which the role of music in black South African society translated into its becoming a powerful tool in its political culture.
Aurora Reyes: writing by painting and painting by writing/Aurora Reyes: escribir pintando y pintar escribiendo
“Although Aurora was a leading figure in the fascinating artistic and political environment of her time, over the years her work, like that of many of her female artist colleagues, began to be made invisible and forgotten.”
Philadelpha Sketchbook: Personal Eucharist
“In person, there was a beauty to the impossibility of fitting all of its warm earthy columns and ornate weathered teal domes into your frame of vision at once.”
Why GOP Attempts to Sanitize History Will Fail
History doesn’t disappear when you shut down a website, threaten a museum’s funding, or remove museum exhibits. We carry the past within us.
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