The Arts

The AK-47 is both confined to itself and symbolic of a greater phenomenon.

Who remembers Lebanon's Cedar IV?

There is a raw, primal intensity to Bellows' paintings of boxing matches.

Is Berger's Marxist take on European oil painting still relevant? Has the feminist social critic Camille Paglia has lost her edge?

How Nasser Al Yousif helped develop a Bahraini conception of modern art

An outsider artists with a penchant for contact sports.

“We speak so much of memory because there is so little left of it.” –Pierre Nora

Notes on the evolution of the depiction of the infamous Biblical allegory of Adam and Eve.

A look at the pervasiveness of this phenomenon in art, literature, and more.