Photography’s Shooting Star
Exhibitions in London and New York honor the prodigious photographer who left behind a timeless body of work following her death, at just 22 Gagosian in New York City is
Writing a Novel With Pictures
Smuggling contraband in from the realm of the actual. Amitava Kumar at Hazlitt: I was sitting on a train, travelling from my home in Poughkeepsie to New York City, when I
The Videos You are About to Watch are Not Real
Creating video from text: Sora is an AI model that can create realistic and imaginative scenes from text instructions.
Poetry: Homes, Back to Home
Homeswe all leave home eventually,leave the dark comfort of wombs,leave the home of childhood,some earlier than others depending uponthe warmth or not of particular hearths.inevitably some step outand abandon silver
The Photographic News. Two Rainbows. A Rose.
In 1868 a reviewer for The Photographic News described a set of prints made by Julia Margaret Cameron as ‘altogether repulsive’. Searching for the original source of this comment for
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‘Guernica’ in Gaza
The town of Guernica in northern Spain was heavily bombed during the Spanish Civil War in 1937. The bombing had a great impact on people all over the world, including
How “The Prophet” Made Kahlil Gibran a Household Name in America
Gibran’s closest counterpart today is the Brazilian sage Paulo Coelho, and his books have sold nearly a hundred million copies. Joan Acocella at Literary Hub: What made The Prophet so fantastically successful?
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“Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind”
“Her Tate Modern retrospective delights me with its mixture of silliness and profundity.“ Tracey Thorn at The New Statesman writes: Halfway round the new “Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind”
In These Dissenting Times
To acknowledge our ancestors meanswe are aware that we did not makeourselves, that the line stretchesall the way back, perhaps, to God; orto Gods. We remember them because itis an
I am Not Your Negro
A segment from James Baldwin’s brilliant response to a philosophy professor on a 1968 episode of The Dick Cavett Show from Raoul Peck’s must-see documentary I Am Not Your Negro.
Note From Quetta: Remembering Amin Sayani of Binaca Geet Mala
By Engr. Habib Khan: Amin Sayani, 91, the popular announcer of Binaca Geet Mala passed away last week on the 20th. I heard the news from the morning program of
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Denzel Washington: Black Actor Who Redefined Excellence in Hollywood
Leah Jones in Yahoo News: Throughout cinematic history, legendary Black actors have shattered barriers and pioneered new standards of excellence through their groundbreaking work on screen and off. Their compelling performances not only entertained
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