Charting a Better World Through Malcolm X’s New York
Malcolm X’s name alone evokes an array of images and social connotations that anchor him in the public zeitgeist as a hyper-militant Black man, provoked by racism yet driven by…
A Sympathetic if Incomplete Portrait of Alberto Giacometti
In a new biography by Michael Peppiatt, 20th-century Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti gets the rock star treatment. The cover of Giacometti in Paris is comprised almost entirely of the artist’s…
Tehran Art Museum Reports 30 Missing Paintings
The Imam Ali Religious Arts Museum in Tehran, Iran, is missing 30 paintings from its collections after they were removed from the premises earlier this summer under the pretense of…
Michigan Art Dealer Sentenced for Defrauding Elderly Collectors
A Michigan art dealer accused of swindling seniors out of $1.6 million in a photography consignment scheme was sentenced to five years and three months in prison on Wednesday, September…
The Artistic Allure of Olympic Athletes
This past summer, the Olympic Games took place in Paris. Paris 1924: Sport, Art and the Body at the Fitzwilliam Museum reminds us that they were in the city 100…
Second Man Buried Under Notre Dame Identified as French Poet
The second of two bodies buried in lead sarcophagi recovered from beneath the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris has almost certainly been identified two years after its discovery. Discovered during…
A Sympathetic if Incomplete Portrait of Alberto Giacometti
In a new biography by Michael Peppiatt, 20th-century Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti gets the rock star treatment. The cover of Giacometti in Paris is comprised almost entirely of the artist’s…
The Palestine Congress That Never Was
The Palestine Congress was going to be historical. International solidarity at its finest, a condemnation of complicity, a step forward to speak truth to power. The weekend conference convening activists,…
Required Reading
Required Reading What Austen-Peters misses, however, is the way that the revolt went beyond the fight against taxation. Ransome-Kuti was a staunch anti-colonialist who publicly questioned the nature of Britain’s…
The Demolition Of Donald Trump
The Demolition Of Donald Trump Oh, did Kamala Harris get under Donald Trump’s skin. I think the point of no return for the malignant narcissist was when she talked about…