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Never have billions of nervous systems been so simultaneously exposed to planetary trauma, celebrity intimacy, political threat, ecological grief, and technological acceleration
Global connectivity without communication
The Garden, Caligula, Trump, you and me: end of one cycle and the beginning of another
A man writing among blurred crowds, symbolising passion that survives regardless of public attention
The novelty of being unseen
Would I still think my passion a noble quest if it amounts to nothing?
Mario Praz was an Italian art and literary critic, as well as a scholar of English literature. His best-known work, The Romantic Agony, offers a comprehensive study of the decadent, erotic, and morbid themes that characterized European literature in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
Why no one writes like Mario Praz anymore
Marginality, erudition, and the disappearance of a literary voice that defied its time
A civilization in motion: time fractures, crowds accelerate, and meaning struggles to remain intact as speed overtakes judgment
When ethics lost its ground
Speed, cybernetics, and the disappearance of the conditions for moral viability
Resilience is what kept the enslaved going through their lives, and it helped them come back stronger
Untold and untaught history: the power of resilience
Resilience during enslavement was derived from the African spirit
According to Joshua 6:1–27, the walls of Jericho fell after the Israelites marched around the city once a day for six days, and seven times on the seventh day, with priests blowing their horns each day and the people shouting on the final day
Jericho: where humanity first remembered
A soulscape reflection on the world’s oldest city, the paradox of permanence, and the echoes that still shape us
The Drum Archive Shop uses iconic images from Drum magazine, drawn from the Bailey’s African History Archive, and reinterprets them on products such as notebooks, greeting cards, T-shirts, and posters
Echoes of an African drum
The Drum magazine writers and hood intellectualism
Queen Emma and Queen Liliʻuokalani, depicted against the backdrop of the Hawaiian Kingdom, symbolizing competing visions of sovereignty, legitimacy, and female authority during a pivotal moment in Hawaiʻi’s political history
Queen Emma and Queen Liliʻuokalani
Power, legitimacy, and the 1874 succession crisis
Northeast of the city Mount Hagen, Papua New Guinea, in the rural Paiya Village, an Asaro mudman dons his ancestral clay mask, embodying the fierce spirit of a tribal warrior
Asaro Mudmen clay masks: origins and cultural legacy
Explore the mystical origins and spiritual significance of Papua New Guinea's iconic tradition
Young Girl Reading by Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot (1796–1875)
"Sophie’s world": a journey through philosophy
From ancient myth to modern existentialism
A ceremonial bull skull fixed upon a rustic wooden frame beneath a turbulent sky in Mexico, reflecting the lingering presence of ancestral belief systems
The real terror in 'Never Whistle at Night'
The indigenous anthology that taught us that the real horror is inhumanely human
A composite vision of power, wealth, and ideological domination—three ancient archetypes of tyranny standing above a world shaped by fear, spectacle, and human suffering
The making of the modern tyrant
Power, ego, and the enduring legacy of Pharaoh, Nimrod, and Qarun
The Iliad by Homer in a library
Homer as political theory and geopolitical allegory
War, revenge, and the poet
"The School of Athens," by Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (between 1509 and 1511). Power and leadership were always relevant discussion topics, inspiring many great thinkers throughout history
Can leaders stay ethical as power shifts incentives?
The question that has challenged thinkers from Plato to Niccolò Machiavelli
The signing of landmark civil rights legislation in the 1960s marked a pivotal moment in U.S. civil rights history, one of Ramparts Magazine's concerns
Ramparts Magazine’s revolutionary rhetoric
Ramparts Magazine was both a product and purveyor of a revolutionary age
A digital painting of an old clock transforming into a melting form, in the surrealist style of Salvador Dalí
The mystery of time between illusion and reality
Do we really live in the present?
Arundhati Roy at a lecture at Harvard University in 2010
“This is India, my dear”: on Arundhati Roy’s memoir
From literary stardom to lifelong dissent, this is the story of a writer who chose political risk over comfort, and moral clarity over silence
A manuscript illustration (18th c.) of the Kurukshetra War, fought between the Kauravas and the Pandavas, recorded in the Indian epic Mahābhārāta
Chiranjeevatva in Indian mythology
Cosmic duty, immortality, and the continuity of dharma
Man wearing a cowboy hat and black coat, seen from behind, Berlin, Germany
Wolfgang Jäger and the politics of kindness
An anthropology of belonging in Berlin
A garden can be a place, a state of mind, or a symbol for growth, peace, abundance, creativity, or spiritual life
Thoughts on the fragmentation of the world
If the world is like a garden, the soil is being prepared for a deep blooming of empathy and love
A solitary figure stands at the crossroads of modernity, choosing autonomy amid systems that demand obedience
There is no crisis of reason, only a crisis of subjecthood
Reclaiming autonomy as the structural condition for rationality in a post-transcendent age
An intimate literary still life evoking HoleniaPoesia’s mission to recover forgotten voices, where aged books, manuscripts, and early twentieth-century journals turn poetry into memory, resistance, and rediscovery
Inside Holeniapoesia’s literary mission
A passionate literary project restoring forgotten poets, overlooked voices, and poetry as an act of memory and resistance
A Hindu temple in Rajasthan, India
The long history of a symbol and its Western distortions
Before the Swastika was hijacked
Space archaeology satellite imagery revealing archaeological sites and ancient landscapes from space, including aerial views of lost and buried cities
What ancient bones reveal about human history
How satellites and DNA technology are rewriting the story of humanity
A Komboskini resting on a Bible, symbolizing faith and unceasing prayer
A guide to Orthodox prayer and spiritual warfare
The Komboskini as a spiritual weapon
Joy preserved the sense of identity and humanity
Untold and untaught history: the power of joy
It became a form of strength, connection, and quiet defiance
Two exchange language students in white T-shirts working in an office in front of a world map
What language do you dream in?
Fluency in a foreign language isn’t about being perfect; it’s about being understood
General Dwight Eisenhower visits the Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory in 1946
Did Eisenhower meet aliens?
The president's secret UFO meeting
Man gazing into a mirror, gripping his face in confusion
What does it mean to be a man today?
From inherited roles to self-reflection in an age beyond traditional masculinity
Two beautiful modern women with short hairstyles and glasses, wearing white pants, smile, hug, and hold red gift boxes against a pink backdrop
Mother’s day gift ideas for every type of mom
From elegant spa days to creative workshops, discover experiences and gifts that truly celebrate her
Man reflecting on family memories in a black-and-white photograph
When labels become walls
The power of language to shape conflict, limit empathy, and define which suffering is acknowledged
Four women dressed in vibrant gyaru fashion with dramatic makeup and statement accessories, reflecting unapologetic self-expression
The Japanization of societal rebellion through subcultures
Tracing how Western influences are adapted, stylized, and reborn within Japan’s youth-driven subcultures
A visual interpretation of the divided identity and moral conflict at the heart of The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Good and evil in The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Secrecy, morality, and the divided self
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Events in Culture

UNRWA, What cannot be erased (detail). Courtesy of Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza
Gaza, where life endures
18 May — 14 Jun 2026 at the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid, Spain
The Přemyslids. A Ruling dynasty and its age, exhibition view. Courtesy of Historical Building of the National Museum
The Přemyslids. A Ruling dynasty and its age
24 Apr — 15 Oct 2026 at the Museum Complex of the National Museum in Prague, Czech Republic
Circus through the changing times, exhibition view. Courtesy of Museum of Czech Puppets and Circus
Circus through the changing times
17 Apr — 31 Oct 2026 at the Museum Complex of the National Museum in Prague, Czech Republic
In Mali, when animals dance, exhibition view. Courtesy of Musée des Confluences
In Mali, when animals dance
3 Apr 2026 — 7 Feb 2027 at the Musée des Confluences in Lyon, France
Rome: empire, power, people, exhibition view. Courtesy of Melbourne Museum
Rome: empire, power, people
1 Apr — 25 Oct 2026 at the Melbourne Museum in Carlton, Australia
František Palacký 1798–1876, exhibition view. Courtesy of Historical Building of the National Museum
František Palacký 1798–1876
1 Apr — 31 Aug 2026 at the Museum Complex of the National Museum in Prague, Czech Republic
Unstoppable! Eurovision song contest highlights at the museum, exhibition view. Courtesy of House of Austrian History
Unstoppable! (...)
25 Mar — 11 Oct 2026 at the House of Austrian History in Vienna, Austria
Destiny in the stars. The beginnings of the zodiac, exhibition view. Courtesy of Neues Museum
Destiny in the stars. The beginnings of the zodiac
21 Mar 2026 — 10 Jan 2027 at the Neues Museum in Berlin, Germany
Book dragon: a fantastic story about the beauty of books, exhibition view. Courtesy of National Museum of Lithuania
Book dragon: a fantastic story about the beauty of books
18 Mar — 27 Sep 2026 at the National Museum of Lithuania in Vilnius, Lithuania
K-Beauty. Korean beauty, story of a phenomenon, exhibition view. Courtesy of Musée Guimet
K-Beauty. Korean beauty, story of a phenomenon
18 Mar — 6 Jul 2026 at the Musée Guimet in Paris, France
Die Donauinsel. 21 kilometer freiraum. Mit freundlicher genehmigung des Wien Museums
Die Donauinsel. 21 kilometer freiraum
13 Mar — 20 Aug 2026 at the Wien Museum in Vienna, Austria
The Danube island. 13 miles of freedom. Courtesy of Wien Museum
The Danube island. 13 miles of freedom
13 Mar — 30 Aug 2026 at the Wien Museum in Vienna, Austria
Central tejo carpentry workshop, 1936-2013, exhibition view. Courtesy of MAAT
Central tejo carpentry workshop, 1936-2013
11 Feb — 31 Aug 2026 at the MAAT in Lisbon, Portugal
Building community. Göbeklitepe, taş tepeler and life 12,000 years ago, exhibition view. Courtesy of James-Simon-Galerie
Building community (...)
6 Feb — 19 Jul 2026 at the James-Simon-Galerie in Berlin, Germany
A soul between worlds, exhibition view. Courtesy of National Museum of Lithuania
A soul between worlds
5 Feb — 2 Aug 2026 at the National Museum of Lithuania in Vilnius, Lithuania
It’s all work. Women’s paid and unpaid labour, fotoarchiv blaschka 1950–1966, exhibition view. Courtesy of House of Austrian History
It’s all work (...)
29 Jan 2026 — 10 Jan 2027 at the House of Austrian History in Vienna, Austria
Fast forward! Styria ↔ Carinthia, exhibition view. Courtesy of History Museum
Fast forward! Styria ↔ Carinthia
12 Dec 2025 — 6 Jan 2027 at the History Museum in Graz, Austria
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