"One morning in class, Rifaat taught the word for ‘mud brick.’ In ancient...
“One morning in class, Rifaat taught the word for ‘mud brick.’ In ancient hieroglyphics, it was djebet, which became tobe in Coptic, and then the Arabs, adding a definite article, made it al-tuba,...
View Article"I have on occasion heard an Englishman express horror at the French policy...
“I have on occasion heard an Englishman express horror at the French policy in North Africa; and I’ve heard Frenchmen condemn both the British and American systems of racial practices. On the other...
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June 27, 1954: A CIA backed coup deposes Jacobo Árbenz,...
President Jacobo Árbenz Carlos Castillo Armas in Guatemala, 1954June 27, 1954: A CIA backed coup deposes Jacobo Árbenz, president of Guatemala. In March 1951, Jacobo Árbenz succeeded Juan José Arévalo...
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“’I Feel Love’ is a brilliant combination of whipped-up...
“’I Feel Love’ is a brilliant combination of whipped-up synthesiser and Summer’s dreamy, driven, ecstatic vocals,” wrote Vince Aletti in his August 13, 1977 column for Record World. “The pace is fierce...
View Article"At the Montreux jazz festival, in 1990, Nina Simone sat at a white baby...
“At the Montreux jazz festival, in 1990, Nina Simone sat at a white baby grand. Her hair was cornrowed into a bun, her cheeks brushed red; double drop earrings grazed her neckline. Leaning into the...
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THE REMARKABLE IMAGES readers consistently find in National...
1963 2013 1981 1920 2015 1968 2013 1983THE REMARKABLE IMAGES readers consistently find in National Geographic today weren’t possible when the publication began in 1888. The technology cost too much,...
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Cosmic Vortex - Justice Divine, 1974Weldon Irvine
Cosmic Vortex - Justice Divine, 1974Weldon Irvine
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Gordon Parks“Eldridge Cleaver and His Wife, Kathleen”Algiers,...
Gordon Parks“Eldridge Cleaver and His Wife, Kathleen”Algiers, Algeria 1970The Gordon Parks Foundation
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Lourdes Grobet“La India Sioux en su recamara, Ciudad de...
Lourdes Grobet“La India Sioux en su recamara, Ciudad de Mexico,” 1983SFMOMA
View Article"When Christianity met the so-called pagan religions of Asia and Africa,...
“When Christianity met the so-called pagan religions of Asia and Africa, there was a strange result… There was too much in that Christian religion that the Asian and African had believed in long before...
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[Wonder] was a sign that you were ignorant at best, or at worst...
[Wonder] was a sign that you were ignorant at best, or at worst you were timorous or fearful. Since ancient times, curiosity was associated with vice rather than virtue… And then what happens in the...
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"There is something very strange about experiencing ‘The Merchant of Venice’...
“There is something very strange about experiencing ‘The Merchant of Venice’ when you are somehow imaginatively implicated in the character and actions of its villain… What, exactly, are you applauding...
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If one horror film hits, everyone says, “Let’s go...
If one horror film hits, everyone says, “Let’s go make a horror film!” It’s the genre that never dies.George A. Romero (February 4, 1940 – July 16, 2017
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Designing a billboard is a different task than designing an ad...
Designing a billboard is a different task than designing an ad for a magazine; it’s got a very different set of requirements. It has to read really fast, because it’s aimed at people driving by. I...
View Article"Confronted with a range of negative hostility of this sort, knowing that the...
“Confronted with a range of negative hostility of this sort, knowing that the society of the Western world is so frantically defensive that it should seek to impose conformity at any price, what is an...
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"It came to pass, salt of the earth, grapes of wrath, how are the mighty...
“It came to pass, salt of the earth, grapes of wrath, how are the mighty fallen, know for a certainty, root of the matter, thorn in the flesh, at death’s door, the way of all flesh, a law unto himself,...
View Article"But why? Why Guernica? How does the picture answer to our culture’s need for...
“But why? Why Guernica? How does the picture answer to our culture’s need for a new epitome of death – and life in the face of it? … Guernica might have proved a failure, or a worthy but soon forgotten...
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