Arts & Politics

  Mario Loprete: Painting for me is my first love. An important, pure love. Creating a painting, starting from the spasmodic research of a concept with...

  By Jim Curtis   Viktor Pelevin (b. 1962) is arguably the key figure for anyone who wants to understand post-Stalinist, post-Soviet Russian culture, particularly with regard...

    Mario Loprete says: Painting for me is my first love. An important, pure love. Creating a painting, starting from the spasmodic research of a concept...

  Author's Note: These elegies were originally written in Sumerian and are dated circa 1700 BC, making them among the oldest known written texts in the...

    By Gustavo Rivera There is a sliver of truth when Josefina Rivera de Álvarez, in her book Literatura Puertorriquena: Su proceso en el tiempo (Puerto Rican...

  Artist Statement: I use photography as a means of self-expression. The most important quality of a photograph, as in all of art, is to evoke...

  Artist Statement: I use photography as a means of self-expression. The most important quality of a photograph, as in all of art, is to evoke...

Kashmiri artist Masood Hussain teamed up with bilingual poet and haiku master Gabriel Rosenstock to create 6 haiku posters that celebrate the 150th anniversary of the birth of Gandhi, the apostle of civil disobedience.

    I live in Catanzaro, a small Calabrian city in the south of Italy. It’s a beautiful place to live in. If geographically  it's a great...

  I was lucky enough to grow up in a household that supported and practiced the arts. I went to  elementary school at a time when...