This essay examines select visual representations of refugees and migrants as embodied subjects in photography, art, and video. It focuses on American asylum politics and explores the questions of free movement, the right to have rights, and the ethics and efficacy of border walls. I argue that the catastrophe of global forced displacement makes…[Read more]

Tarih boyunca kentler, kültür ve medeniyetlerin doğduğu, geliştiği ve yayıldığı yerler olmuştur. Kentler, tarihsel süreçte insanların çeşitli gereksinimlerinin ürünü olarak sürekli bir gelişme göstermiştir. Bu gelişme sürecinde hem insanlığın birikiminin gelecek kuşaklara taşıyıcısı, hem de taşıdığı uygarlık birikimi ile insanoğlunun geleceğini şe…[Read more]

This paper proposes a novel source for – or at least influence on – the iconography of the Moon trump in the Rider-Waite Tarot deck, which preserves the design from the Tarot de Marseille. In fact, the Moon template appears to date back to the earliest days of the Tarot. The proposed source or prototype is a Greco-Roman talismanic design aga…[Read more]

In a groundbreaking endeavour to triangulate three important traditions of our collective cultural heritage, the Arkeologisk Museum of the University of Stavanger presents Eden and Everything After, a conceptual exhibition organised around notions of the loss of – and slim hope of reconnection with – the lost paradise. Mirroring the boldly exp…[Read more]

From the first moment the CFR (Fernández Rivero Collection) had among its objectives the formation of a collection of historical photography that would serve to understand the reality of the photographic phenomenon (especially in Spain) as a whole. From this point of view, it was clear that family photography should have its space in the…[Read more]

Once the manufacturing powerhouse of the nation, Detroit has become emblematic of failing cities everywhere—the paradigmatic city of ruins—and the epicenter of an explosive growth in images of urban decay. In Beautiful Terrible Ruins, art historian Dora Apel explores a wide array of these images, ranging from photography, advertising, and tel…[Read more]

Interview with Thomas Hill on The Library Cafe out of Vassar