“Refusing to sacrifice her socialist principles for commercial success, folk-blues-jazz singer Barbara Dane dedicated her life to bringing music from around the world back to where it belonged: in the hands of the people struggling to change it.”
These paintings symbolise the interconnectedness of all things, and that we live in a unified universe.
A facinating article about a special category of miniature painting called ‘Ragamala,’ which is the pictorial representation of an Indian musical mode or melody which is called a ‘raga.’
We make a connection between the religious-mathematical foundation of the Islamic form and its introduction into the Renaissance artistic world at a time when it seeks to develop geometric thought based on the new humanist mentality.
“How do visual representations of the past, or lack thereof, affect our perception of history? To what extent is our experience and understanding of the present shaped by a more intimate knowledge of past events?”
Mary Granville Delany Invented The Art Of Mixed Media Collage At Age 71.
Kalīla wa-Dimna (كليلة ودمنة), a book of animal fables, has has been translated into many languages over time and has become a text that has permeated political and moral philosophies around the world.
We are so grateful for the chance to talk to Wormwood Stubbs about his remarkable paintings.
The Disappointed Tourist tries to create a level playing field in which personal losses and larger cultural losses can meet and be recognized and create a new conversation about our love for our physical environment, harnessing nostalgia to create empathy rather than division.
As a flâneur of insatiable curiosity, he abandoned the main boulevards for the lushness of Riverside Park, the crowds at Madison Square, the excavation site for Pennsylvania Station, the kids at play on Coney Island, the private clubs where illegal boxing could be staged for paying members, and the “river rats” of the East River.
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