the allure of a ‘lost paradise’ and the marks of its collapse
Britain’s most distinguished historian of ancient Greek art recounts what the Parthenon and its sculptures meant to the citizens of fifth-century BCE Athens
Puk Qvortrup invites us into the hardest moments of her life
There are no more than a thousand people living on the island
The African diaspora—a direct result of the transatlantic slave trade and Western colonialism—has generated a wide array of artistic achievements
Willy Van der Meeren lighting design the allure of a ‘lostRooted in a firm socialist credo, Willy Van Der Meeren (19232002) championed an architecture for the massesbuilt logically, with as little material as possible, and endowed with the necessary elegance to make it through the day. Van Der Meeren did not preconceive architecture, nor did he postproduce it. He thought, acted, and built in the now, at a scale of 1: 1. His architecturesalmost without exceptionare clear prototypes, awaiting mass production.