Gaudy or iconic? How leopard print took over
Worn by everyone from pin-ups and “mob wives” to Jackie O and royalty, leopard print has long divided opinion. As…
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4th Annual Vancouver Worldwide Black Movie Competition Returns December 13–17 — BC Alliance for Arts + Tradition
The extremely anticipated 4th Annual Vancouver Worldwide Black Movie Competition (VIBFF) is about to make a daring return this December!…
Kirill Serebrennikov’s poetic tackle Russian punk outsider Eduard Limonov
Eduard Limonov was a poet, a punk, a Russian “émigré” and provocateur whose anti-system politics ultimately noticed him embrace fascist…
Beautiful 19th Century Maps of Dante’s Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatory, Paradise & More
Even the least religious among us speak, at least on occasion, of the circles of hell. When we do so,…
A vampire film with ‘so much to sink your teeth into’
Focus Features With Bill Skarsgård as the “horrible old vampire”, Robert Eggers’s remake of FW Murnau’s silent 1922 classic stars…
Uncover Hannah Arendt’s Syllabus for Her 1974 Course on “Considering”
If you happen to’ve learn one work of Hannah Arendt’s, it’s probably Eichmann in Jerusalem, her account of the trial…
Love and Gratitude: How Dorothy L. Sayers’s 1930 Novel Challenges Trendy Rescue Romance
“Then you definately gained’t marry me?”The prisoner shook her head.“No, it wouldn’t be honest to you. . . .”“All proper,”…
How the fall of Pyongyang brought the world to the brink of crisis
Getty Images In December 1950, a BBC cameraman captured the fall of Pyongyang, a defining moment in the Korean War….
14 Self-Portraits by Pablo Picasso Present the Evolution of His Fashion: See Self-Portraits Shifting from Ages 15 to 90
15 years outdated (1896) It’s possible to have a look at Pablo Picasso’s many formal experiments and periodic shifts of…
Ken Burns’ New Documentary on Leonardo da Vinci Streaming Online (in the US) for a Limited Time
A quick heads up: The filmmaker Ken Burns has just released his new documentary on Leonardo da Vinci. Running nearly…
Get $160 Off a Yr of Coursera Plus & Acquire Limitless Entry to Programs in Knowledge Analytics, Generative AI, Cybersecurity and Different Fields
A heads-up on a Black Friday special: Between as we speak and December 2, 2024, Coursperiod is supplying a 40%…
The Most Iconic Hip-Hop Sample of Every Year (1973-2023)
Hip-hop was once a subculture, but by now it’s long since been one of the unquestionably dominant forms of popular…
Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Creative Process: A Look Inside the Books & Techniques That Allowed His Art to Flow
The story of Jean-Michel Basquiat has its unfortunate aspects: not just his premature death, but also the aggressive marketing of…
12 of the perfect movies to observe this December
Searchlight Photos From a steamy age-gap thriller starring Nicole Kidman to a Bob Dylan biopic that includes Timothée Chalamet, these…
Creator Alexis Pauline Gumbs on perpetuating the Black feminist legacy of Audre Lorde
An writer who has drawn sturdy parallels with the long-lasting Black lesbian feminist author Audre Lorde has spoken to FRANCE…