April 1, 2023

Designers say these are the chicest, most inexpensive home decorating trends now

If you’re in the mood to spruce up your home with some new decor, the options can seem endless and it can be hard to know […]
March 31, 2023

A SWASTIKA WITHIN A CIRCLE

PART I This provocatively titled post is an “appendix” of sorts, for the cross-cultural story “The Agonized Womb of Consciousness.” Rather than shy way from the […]
March 17, 2023

Research Bits: Feb. 14

Kagome superconductors structure revealed; compact 3D lidar sees non-reflective objects; chromo-encryption. Defining Kagome superconductors An international team of scientists and researchers from the Brown University lab […]
March 16, 2023

Dana Awartani on using craft—which is ‘seen as a bad word’—in her art

We meet the artist nominated for the Richard Mille Art Prize In partnership with Dana Awartani Courtesy of the artist and Ali Sumayin Ten artists from […]
March 7, 2023

Vast light installation on San Francisco’s Bay Bridge goes dark amid $11m fundraising effort to keep it on

After a decade of illuminating the Bay Area’s second-most iconic span, Leo Villareal’s artwork will be removed due to outages and weather damage, but fundraising efforts […]
March 6, 2023

Persian painting biennial returns after six-year hiatus

TEHRAN – The 11th edition of Iran’s National Biennial of Persian Painting opened on Saturday after a six-year gap resulting from mismanagement and the COVID-19 pandemic. […]
March 5, 2023

Persian painting biennial returns after six-year hiatus

An art aficionado visits the 11th edition of Iran’s National Biennial of Persian Painting at the Saba Art and Cultural Institute in Tehran on March 4, […]
March 1, 2023

Akbar’s Special Affinity With Alexander the Great

History The fifth poem of Nizami’s Khamsah (Quintet), Iskandarnamah, is a two-part account of the life of Alexander the Great or Iskandar as he is called […]
February 27, 2023

Akbar’s Special Affinity With Alexander the Great

History The fifth poem of Nizami’s Khamsah (Quintet), Iskandarnamah, is a two-part account of the life of Alexander the Great or Iskandar as he is called […]
February 24, 2023

Feeling an affinity with Alexander the Great, Akbar commissioned a special manuscript on his life

Artist, Bhura. Lahore, 1593-5 (Or.12208, f. 244v) (Public Domain) With the British Library exhibition Alexander the Great: The making of a Myth coming to a close, […]