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Dr. Shadiya Mohamed S. Baqutayan and Jeffrey Levett
Dr. Shadiya Baqutayan: faith, migration, and dignity
From Yemen to Malaysia and living in Spain
The Museum of Memory (MUME): What was once the house of an authoritarian president has been reclaimed and resignified
Garden of memory: the house of a dictator
Once a playground of tyranny, now a sanctuary of remembrance — how Uruguay turned its dark past into living history
Twelve cards from a tarot deck with French text
Inscribed symbols of society
Investigating the cultural, religious and artistic approaches embedded in tarot imagery
Nāga, Himmapan animal on Royal Crematorium King Rama IX
Mystical subterranean realms of Shiva’s Ganas
The mystical realms where Shiva’s Ganas guard secret wisdom and awaken through sacred rites
On the occasion of the annual spring festival in Vietnam, artists, along with mediums and spirit mediums from various local communities across the country, participated in Hau Dong performance
Hau dong: spirit, stage, and the Mother Goddess in Vietnam
Blending shamanism, magic, and urban religion, this ritual remains a meaningful spiritual experience in Vietnam
Two children stand on snow-covered ground during the daytime, playing on a snowdrift at a farm near Moscow, USSR
Does living mean resilience?
How ordinary Soviet lives survived the collapse of a superpower
Elderly men and children sitting together, reflecting the warmth and traditions of Uzbek culture in Uzbekistan
Uzbek language day celebrating national identity
From ancient roots to global growth, Uzbek unites millions worldwide
Jean-François Millet – The Gleaners (1857)
Humanity’s lost harmony with nature
The gentle act of noticing and the willingness to see the world around us
A jester in John Dawson Watson’s Friends in Council (1877)
The curious case of Roland the Farter, flatulist to the king
When flatulence was a skill celebrated at medieval royal courts
A human silhouette dissolves into cosmic light and flowing energy, symbolizing the seamless continuity between matter, consciousness, and the natural world — a visual reflection of universal naturalism
The supreme enigma
The incomprehension of the continuity of matter-potentiality
People Who Don't Know / People Who Know, also known as Traumatized Mr. Incredible, is a 2021 meme which contains two images of the character Mr. Incredible
Italian brain rot, life in the dying internet
"Is it a bird? A plane? No—it’s a crocodile-fueled jet of internet absurdity
Ottoman Empire in Asia, c. 1914
Heritage consciousness in the Ottoman periphery
Ruin poetry and relics in the early modern period
A cheerful female woman walking with her bags in the street
Dublin diaries: when 'forever abroad' isn't sustainable
The myth of the forever expat
A video camera recording an elderly woman as she vlogs
The rise and fall of social media influence
In an age where follower counts are currency, does everyone who has a platform truly deserve one?
The tomb of Ferdowsi in Mashhad, Iran
How the poet Ferdowsi saved the Persian language
Ferdowsi’s legacy and the survival of Persian
The Vittoriale degli italiani is a hillside estate in the town of Gardone Riviera overlooking Lake Garda in province of Brescia, in Lombardy. It is where the Italian poet and novelist Gabriele D'Annunzio lived from 1922 until his death in 1938
The Third Place with Fiorenza Palmerio Gancia
Exploring spirituality, art, and the reimagining of Gabriele d’Annunzio as a guide for contemporary life
A white man covering a Black person’s face with his hands
The hidden face of modern racism
How it's evolved into subtle shadows
Variation in visual codes and symbols across customs & cultures
Beyond black: the colours of death across cultures
Diversity in the visual codes of death in global funerary practices
A lesson for our times
The enduring echoes of Argentina's Dirty War
The Battle of Tolhuis, Louis XIV crosses the Lower Rhine at Lobith on 12 June 1672; Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Netherlands
What Louis XIV can teach today’s policymakers
Louis XIV waged war for supremacy and lived to tell the tale, his strategy still speaks
Gabriel’s fight was not against men, but against the lie of equality written without justice
Untold and untaught history: Gabriel, freedom fighter
A fight for true American ideals
Job and His Friends by Ilya Repin (1869)
The timeless lessons of Adam, Eve, and Job
Faith amid temptation and trials
African American women played an important and influential role in the Black Power Movement. They held leadership roles in various black nationalist organizations, including the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense
My hair is not the problem
How Black masculinity, respectability politics, and the white gaze have policed my curls—and why I wear them as freedom
The Headless Horseman pursues Ichabod Crane in an illustration by Edward Hull (1823-1906)
Sleepy Hollow, a Dutch Halloween legend
Beyond the Headless Horseman: a deep dive into Sleepy Hollow's origins
Color photo of 3I/ATLAS by the Gemini South Observatory on 27 August 2025, showing its fuzzy coma and tail
3I/ATLAS: Humanity’s third interstellar visitor
The third known interstellar visitor blurs the line between natural phenomenon and possible technology
Two titans of philosophy—Hegel and Schopenhauer—captured side by side, embodying the tension between reason’s promise and the raw force of the will
Hegel vs. Schopenhauer: power and philosophy
One the prophet of progress, the other the philosopher of reality, revealing the politics behind ideas and the will beneath reason
Everyone’s chasing conspiracies, except the detectives
Who killed Hispanic detectives?
From noir to narco: how detectives vanished from Hispanic fiction
A terrified young woman clings to a pillar amid the ruins of a Gothic castle, while a shadowy figure drags another woman into the darkness, evoking themes of fear, captivity, and female vulnerability
Are Northanger ‘horrid novels’ actually horrid?
How fear and disgust are portrayed in gothic novels
Guernica, by Pablo Picasso: a canvas that carried the cry of Spain across the world
From New York to Madrid: a generation against tyranny
Scholars, artists, and idealists in the fight against Spanish fascism
A grandfather reading a story to his grandkid, signifying how important it is to pass down traditions and stories through generations
The role of storytelling in preserving identity
How stories help mould perspective, protect heritage, and shape identity across generations
A man sits in quiet reflection, watching a public figure on screen—capturing the contrast between introspective thought and the spectacle of modern genius
Pop genius Musk, Nolan, Kojima: a recipe for fame
How we mistake loudness for brilliance and reverence for relevance
The Yakovalı Hasan Paşa Mosque (Hungarian: Jakováli Hasszán dzsámija, Turkish: Yakovalı Hasan Paşa Camii) is an early 17th-century mosque in Pécs, southern Hungary. It was constructed when the region was part of the Turkish Ottoman Empire, together with the main mosque of Pécs
Turkish cultural influence in Hungary
From Ottoman baths to borrowed words and shared cuisine, a look at how centuries of Turkish presence shaped Hungary’s identity
SMS Goeben was the last surviving battlecruiser built by the Imperial German Navy and the only one to receive a NATO hull number
Goeben/Yavuz: the warship that changed history
From a German escape to decades in Turkish service, one battlecruiser reshaped empires and survived two world wars
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Events in Culture

Unidentified photographer, Hester street, West from the Southwest corner of Norfolk Street, New York City, ca. 1898. Courtesy of the New York Historical
Stirring the melting pot (...)
28 Nov 2025 — 29 Mar 2026 at the The New York Historical in New York, United States
Miki Muster, on the 100th anniversary of his birth. Courtesy of City Museum of Ljubljana
Miki Muster, on the 100th anniversary of his birth
22 Oct 2025 — 22 Feb 2026 at the City Museum of Ljubljana in Ljubljana, Slovenia
Jacob Lawrence, Harlem diner, 1938. Courtesy of the New York Historical
The gay Harlem renaissance
10 Oct 2025 — 8 Mar 2026 at the The New York Historical in New York, United States
You have an inheritance! Exhibition view. Courtesy of Estonian History Museum
You have an inheritance!
3 Oct 2025 — 30 Aug 2026 at the Estonian History Museum in Tallinn, Estonia
Various artists, Anatomy of fragility – Body images in art and science, exhibition view. Courtesy of Frankfurter Kunstverein
Anatomy of fragility – Body images in art and science
2 Oct 2025 — 1 Mar 2026 at the Frankfurter Kunstverein in Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Inexplicable absence. Tracing Igor Zabel’s curatorial practice, exhibition view. Courtesy of MG+MSUM
Inexplicable absence (...)
24 Sep — 15 Dec 2025 at the MG+MSUM in Ljubljana, Slovenia
Frank Gaudlitz, Natascha J., 36, with her children Aurica, 13, Timur, 10, Beata 7, Mark, 4, and her sister-in-law Marina K., 24, with their son Bogdan, 5, from Winnyzja, Ukraine. Housing for refugees, Dondușeni, Moldova, 10/2022. Courtesy of Museum Europäischer Kulturen
Flight
19 Sep 2025 — 1 Mar 2026 at the Museum Europäischer Kulturen in Berlin, Germany
A longing for peace, exhibition view. Courtesy of Nordico City Museum
A longing for peace
19 Sep 2025 — 8 Mar 2026 at the Nordico City Museum in Linz, Austria
Oliver Jeffers, Life at sea, exhibition view. Courtesy of the Brooklyn Museum
Life at sea
19 Sep 2025 — 26 Apr 2026 at the Brooklyn Museum in New York, United States
Gabriel Ivanovič de Rumine Pompei, Via dell’abbondanza (detail), 1859. Courtesy of Museo Archeologico Nazionale
1859 – A russian photopgrapher in Pompeii
17 Sep 2025 — 28 Feb 2026 at the Museo Archeologico Nazionale in Naples, Italy
Of time and stone. In Roman Emona and Baroque Ljubljana/Laibach, exhibition view. Courtesy of City Museum of Ljubljana
Of time and stone (...)
16 Sep 2025 — 29 Mar 2026 at the City Museum of Ljubljana in Ljubljana, Slovenia
Black photojournalism, exhibition view. Courtesy of Carnegie Museum of Art
Black photojournalism
13 Sep 2025 — 19 Jan 2026 at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, United States
Eugene Gordon, New York, Jackson heights, Queens, 1984. Courtesy of the New York Historical
The New York sari
12 Sep 2025 — 26 Apr 2026 at the The New York Historical in New York, United States
Attavante degli Attavanti, Pope Leo X vesting; Leo X praying, praeparatio ad missam of Leo X, Italy, Rome, 1520. Courtesy of the Morgan Library & Museum
Sing a new song: the psalms in medieval art and life
12 Sep 2025 — 4 Jan 2026 at the Morgan Library & Museum in New York, United States
Founding Yan: Liulihe site in Fangshan, exhibition view. Courtesy of Capital Museum
Founding Yan: Liulihe site in Fangshan
28 Aug — 28 Nov 2025 at the Capital Museum in Beijing, China
View of the Berlin Lustgarten and the Royal Museum (now the Old Museum); Carl Daniel Freydanck, The Old Museum in Berlin, 1836, SPSG. Courtesy of Altes Museum
Founded on antiquity. Berlin's first museum
10 Jul 2025 — 3 May 2026 at the Altes Museum in Berlin, Germany
Page from a Qurʾan manuscript in Kufi script, Iraq, Abbasid dynasty, 8th–9th century. Courtesy of Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg
Inspiring SWANA
4 Jul 2025 — 4 Jul 2026 at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg in Hamburg, Germany
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