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Geopolitics and Innovation at Louvre Abu Dhabi: In Conversation with Manuel Rabaté and Dr Souraya Noujaim
Manuel Rabaté is Director of Louvre Abu Dhabi. He has taught Arts & Cultural Management at Paris-Dauphine University and Paris-Sorbonne...

Alexander (Sami) Kardos-Nyheim
8 min read


A Witness Walking to these Shores: Embodied Memory and the Dispersed Spatiality of Networked Presence
A witness walking to these shores in our time would not spy a single war-worn and sea-tossed Ithacan sailor returning to his homeland but...

Michael Joyce
16 min read


Ewell in the East (or Not): A Chinese Perspective on Racism in Music Studies
1. Introduction Music theory is white. —Philip Ewell Thus begins Philip Ewell’s article ‘Music Theory and the White Racial Frame’.[1] His...

David Chu
13 min read


The Network Metaphor: New Communication Space
Introduction Webster’s Dictionary defines culture as ‘the integrated pattern of human knowledge, belief and behaviour that depends on...

Don Foresta
20 min read


The Ecclesiastical Mosaic SYNTERESE (Dedicated to the 520 Occupied Churches of Cyprus)
Fig 1. Returning (detail of SYNTERESE (Father Demosthenes Demosthenous 2020, mosaic)). Akropoli-Strovolos. Courtesy of Father Demosthenes...
Father Demosthenes Demosthenous
15 min read


The Symbiotic Intermingling of Culture, Economics, and Security: A Personal Retrospective
The forging of a life in culture, economics, and security My formative years were marked by my parents’ hopes and dreams that I would...

Adrian Kendry
9 min read


Re-Examining the Critical Analysis of Indian Society and the Caste System in Swades: We, the People (2004)
For far too long, Ashutosh Gowariker’s Swades (2004) has maintained its status as an Indian cinema cult classic. It is a film about a...

Richa Kapoor
14 min read


A Life of Art and Travel: Professor Frances Spalding in Conversation with Mark Cazalet
Mark Cazalet, born 1964, trained at the Chelsea and then Falmouth Schools of Art, after which he held scholarships in Paris and India. He...

Frances Spalding
21 min read


On Feeling
Every year a flower painting finds its way into my art. The Sunflowers started with a creature I drew in charcoal straight onto the...

Gabriella Kardos
7 min read


(Un)natural Archives: Botanical Gardens, Photography, and Postcards
This paper examines contemporary Singaporean artist Marvin Tang’s project The Colony – Archive (2019), a part of his ongoing research...

Constance Koh
9 min read


Opening the Cave: The Necessity of Art in Society
If the doors of perception were cleansed then everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he...

Willow Winston
10 min read


Waiting for Saddam
One of Adolf Hitler’s favourite musicians was Richard Wagner. His thunderous compositions were meant to instil a violent pride within the...

Keshav Srinivasan
6 min read


‘A heap of broken images’: The Possibility of Connection in TS Eliot’s The Waste Land
Eliot’s work is filled—especially the poetry—with masks, role-playing, and multiple voices. Yet it is saturated everywhere, too, with...
Asseel Darwish
15 min read


Famous Lost Artworks
Modern commerce takes place at supersonic speed. It therefore surprises many that most of the world’s traded goods are still, at some...

Serhan Handani
8 min read


The Cultural Logic of Statues
A statue tumbles and, with an almighty splash, sinks below the water. Those responsible cheer with joy. Onlookers are captured in a range...

Jack Graveney
12 min read


Steering the Royal Academy in Pandemic Times: In Conversation with Axel Rüger
Axel Rü̈ger is Secretary and Chief Executive of the Royal Academy of Arts. He is a former Director of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam...

Louisa Stuart-Smith
6 min read


Leonardo the Myth alongside Leonardo the Architect
Leonardo da Vinci is a constant of the Western cultural tradition. We grow up with a vague sense of Leonardo’s achievements, knowing him...

Ruairi Smith
10 min read


Remediation
The will to transparency, the scopic drive to see through, to scrutinise naked truth, encounters a significant impediment in the dead...

Peter Goodrich
21 min read


The Retrial of Dante: In Conversation with Count Sperello Alighieri and Antoine de Gabrielli
Count Sperello di Serego Alighieri is an astronomer descended from Dante Alighieri, author of the Divine Comedy . Antoine de Gabrielli...

Alexander (Sami) Kardos-Nyheim
10 min read


The Sacred and the Profane
Fig 1. Sacred and Profane Love (Titian 1514, oil on canvas). Wikimedia Commons. <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tiziano_-_Amor_S...

Matthew Sargent
10 min read


Art Law at Christie’s: In Conversation with Maggie Hoag
Maggie Hoag is Deputy General Counsel, Americas, at the auction house Christie’s. She studied art law at Stanford, and was involved in...

Alexander (Sami) Kardos-Nyheim
6 min read
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