Category: Arts
Political Cartoons Weekending April 24, 2022
Best political cartoons pick weekending April 24, 2022: More here.
A Genius on the Wrong Side of History: Tolstoy’s Conflicts and Contradictions
Maria Rubin in The NY Review of Books: IT IS DAUNTING to write a biography of…
Neuroscience Gets in the Way of Appreciating Art
Describing ourselves in the language of neurobiology has got to be one of the stranger…
A Gentleman in Moscow (ماسکو میں ایک شخصیت)
From the New York Times bestselling author of Rules of Civility— A Gentleman in Moscow…
Abstract Artists and Old Friends
Melvin Edwards, Sam Gilliam & William T Williams — all of them are key figures…
The British Empire Was Much Worse Than You Realize
The world’s biggest colonial power prided itself on being a liberal democracy. But liberal imperialism…
‘Picasso Picassofied People’ in Guernica
Peter Conrad at The Guardian: This ingenious final volume of an epic biography illuminates the…
Girls With Earrings (جھمکےاُتارے جاتے ہیں)
Girl with a Pearl Earring is a historical novel set in 17th-century Holland. It’s a…
Popper on Plato: ‘Open Society’ and ‘Closed Society’
In November of 1945, Karl Popper’s The Open Society and Its Enemies was published in…
Saudi Arabia Hosts Digital Art Forum -First in the Region
Saudi Arabia hosted the Middle East’s first digital art forum and brought together Saudi and…
Did Don Quixote Long For Muslim Spain?
Don Quixote is the Saturday Night Live of the Spanish Inquisition. Cervantes roasts everybody, including the Catholic Church…