Category: Culture

Death on the Road: Memory in Tim Winton’s Shrine by Dr. Binoy Kampmark 2017-06-25

April 21, 2022

The effort of the Kin Collective behind Tim Winton’s third play, Shrine, was always going to be a step onto virgin land.  For one, Winton comes at the play as a novelist, thick with internalised images and noise.  As the director Marcel Dorney explained of the recently concluded production, “People who spend more time in … More Death on the Road: Memory in Tim Winton’s Shrine by Dr. Binoy Kampmark 2017-06-25

Why I write the way I do by Abigail George 2016-03-06

January 16, 2022

In futurity I want to find new realities in the notes from the universe. I think that is why I fluctuate from putting pen to paper short writings (for example, haiku, short stories, poetry) are what I write about mostly. People assume that writers and journalists must have the ‘gift of the gab’. Some do. … More Why I write the way I do by Abigail George 2016-03-06

The “Anathema” of Seeing Imperfect Beauty by Dr. Emine Koseoglu 2015-10-26

January 9, 2022

According to Jon Lang (1983): “…Formal aesthetics is concerned with the perceptions of beauty or pleasure in the geometric quality of the layout of buildings, streets, landscapes and urban designs.” “…In architecture today the formal aesthetic character of the buildings is still of concern. It always will be to a greater or lesser extent. In … More The “Anathema” of Seeing Imperfect Beauty by Dr. Emine Koseoglu 2015-10-26

The financialization of the art world and the cannibalization of creativity by Kovach Imre and Murray Hunter 2015-09-22

January 9, 2022

For most people, the art world is an area of sophistication, finesse, and creativity, which takes a high moral ground in today’s society. It s acknowledged that art is one of the highest social achievements of people within society, placing the discipline of art on a cultural plane that is viewed as being pure and … More The financialization of the art world and the cannibalization of creativity by Kovach Imre and Murray Hunter 2015-09-22

Valikhanov and Dostoyevsky: Dwellers of the Steppe by Osvaldo Rocha 2015-07-02

November 11, 2021

During his infamous Siberian exile, Fyodor Dostoyevsky made one of his most singular friends, Chokan Valikhanov, an extremely clever young man that would later become the father of historiography and ethnography in his homeland of Kazakhstan. This year marks the 150th anniversary of Valikhanov’s death, the explorer and scholar of the vast, unknown plains of … More Valikhanov and Dostoyevsky: Dwellers of the Steppe by Osvaldo Rocha 2015-07-02

Beware of the art by Dimitris Kontogiannis 2015-06-08

November 11, 2021

I love writing about censorship. It’s one of my favorite topics because it can reveal all the hypocrisy and the propriety of our society. Until now, 2015 has been a very good year for censorship. We saw politicians trying to benefit from the Charlie Hebdo murders, we saw the Greek Prime Minister condemning publicly a … More Beware of the art by Dimitris Kontogiannis 2015-06-08

The Cultural Heritage of Iraq and Syria: “Destroyed by human ignorance − rebuilt by human hope” by Rene Wadlow 2015-03-02

November 3, 2021

On Friday, 27 February 2015, the United Nations Security Council condemned “the deliberate destruction of irreplaceable religious and cultural artifacts housed in the Mosul Museum and burning of thousands of books and rare manuscripts from the Mosul Library” and having burned a few days earlier thousands of books from the Mosul, Iraq, University Library.  The … More The Cultural Heritage of Iraq and Syria: “Destroyed by human ignorance − rebuilt by human hope” by Rene Wadlow 2015-03-02